Nabucco (Blu-ray)

Verdi's third opera was created at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1842, in the epicentre of the "Risorgimento" and the capital of Italian nationalism, at a time where the supporters of Italian independence from Austrian occupation were starting to make their voices heard. The "Chorus of the Hebrew slaves," a pivotal point in the third act where the Jews, exiled from Babylon by Nabuchodonosor,...