Can we have a new Nabucco, please?
Elijah Moshinsky met Nabucco in New York (**) [cinema]
It is true: Nabucco is far from Verdi’s most original creation. The dramatical structure is crumbly at best, and it is clear that on the one hand Verdi makes grateful use of Rossini’s example, on the other hand he desperately tries to wriggle from under it. He barely succeeds to do the latter; the former yields b…
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