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January 23 – February 12
In Italian with projected English titles
Nabucco
Verdi
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Politics. Religion. A dangerous love
triangle. Plus two killer roles and
some of the greatest choral music
ever written, including the soul-
stirring “Va, pensiero” chorus. This is
the opera that made Verdi a star!
On one side, the fiery Hebrew
priest Zaccaria, battling to lead
his people from oppression. On
the other, Nabucco, the tyrannical
Babylonian king and his formidable
adopted daughter Abigaille, who
will stop at nothing to get her
father’s throne and her sister’s
lover.
Željko Lucˇic´
, Lyric’s riveting
Rigoletto in 2013, is Nabucco, a
role compared to Shakespeare’s
King Lear in its majestic sweep.
Experience his journey from
despised despot to self-proclaimed
god; then from paranoid madman
to grateful father redeemed by
faith. And watch as dramatic-
soprano phenom
Tatiana Serjan
eats up the stage as the warrior
princess Abigaille, worthy sister
to Lady Macbeth in her lust for
power. Mighty Russian bass
Dmitry
Belosselskiy
is Zaccaria.
NABUCCO
Željko Lučić
ABIGAILLE
Tatiana Serjan
ZACCARIA
Dmitry Belosselskiy*
FENENA
Elizabeth DeShong
‡
ISMAELE
Sergey Skorokhodov*
CONDUCTOR
Carlo Rizzi
DIRECTOR
Daniele Abbado*
SET DESIGNER
Alison Chitty
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Alessandro Carletti*
CHORUS MASTER
Michael Black
Coproduction with Teatro
alla Scala, Royal Opera
House Covent Garden, and
Gran Teatre del Liceu.
NEW TO CHICAGO PRODUCTION
Lyric Opera coproduction generously
made possible by
Katherine A. Abelson
and Robert J. Cornell
.
*
LYRIC OPERA DEBUT
‡
RYAN OPERA CENTER ALUMNA