Word: nabucco
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Settling Down. Next year Schippers will open the Met season with a new production of Verdi's early opera Nabucco. On his schedule for spring and summer: recording his first album for Columbia and running Italy's international Spoleto Festival. In perhaps three years' time he admits that he would like to settle down with an orchestra of his own, and he knows just the kind he wants: "One-third Italian musicians for their line, one-third Jewish for their sound, a sprinkling of Germans for solidity." But, adds Schippers, he must live in a city "that...
...post as Busseto organist over violent opposition and married his childhood sweetheart, daughter of his patron. Their two children died in infancy, and wife Margherita followed them to the grave after only four years of marriage and just before her husband's first big success, the opera Nabucco...
Through a drizzling rain, the coffin was carried on its final trip to Milan's Monu-mentale Cemetery, where three massed choirs sang the famous chorus ("Go our thoughts on golden wings") from Verdi's Nabucco-the same music that Toscanini himself tearfully conducted at Verdi's funeral 56 years ago. Then, without a spoken word, Maestro was placed beside his son and his wife Carla: Section 7, Tomb 184. "Milan and the world of music," reported // Giorno, "knelt at his grave...
...Verdi: Nabucco (Paolo Silveri, baritone; Cabriella Gatti, soprano; Caterina Mancini, soprano; Mario Binci, tenor, and others; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Verdi's third opera, but the first to win him international fame. Composed when he was 29, Nabucco (short for Nebuchadnezzar) has much of the rousing spirit and power of Aïda and Otello. Performance and recording: excellent...
...Guests into the Wartburge from "Tannhauser" Wagner Simmon College Chorus Overture to "Russlan and Ludmilla" Glinka "A Night on Bald Mountain," Orchestral Fantasy Moussorgsky Berceuse Cui Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Intermezzo, "L'Amico Fritz" Mascagni Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Overture to "Nabucco" Verdi...