Golden harp of prophetic bards, why do you hang, silent, from the willow?

Reignite memories deep in our chest, and tell us of a time that once was …

Milano, 1842. Not yet afforded nationhood and under the oppression and occupation of a larger, powerful regime, the first audiences of Nabucco found a contemporary political and social resonance which has accompanied the opera ever since.

Radical and stark in its depiction of oppression, occupation, and an endless, omnipresent search for meaning and identity, Nabucco speaks to our world today, as strongly as to the world of its premiere.

Disarmingly pertinent, this is an opera for our here and now.