by John Rizzo
Giuseppe Verdi's "Nabucco" is one of the most significant works of art ever created. Not only is its impact historic in launching Verdi's successful career as an opera composer and so decidedly affecting the direction of Romantic opera, but it clearly had a historic impact on Italy and European politics. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine what Europe might look like even today if "Nabucco" had not been staged at La Scala in March 1842.
Perhaps the greatest miracle of "Nabucco" was that it was the work of a very troubled young composer — certainly a talented man, but one who had almost been crushed into obscurity by a pitiless series of depressing, heartbreaking and mightily discouraging circumstances. Having been told all his life how talented he was, Verdi had been rejected by the Conservatory of Music in Milan. Then it took him three long years of thankless hustling, brown-nosing and groveling to nobodies before he could get his first opera produced.
Fonte: Fra Noi
