The Saturday opera takes a break from the New York Met to visit
Geneva's Grand Theatre for a performance of Verdi's biblical-style epic - a melange of love, war, mad kings, poisoned queens, broken idols and hanging gardens worthy of Hollywood. Nabucco... GREGORY YURISICH (bar)
Ismaele ...VALENTIN PROLAT (tenor)
Zaccaria
ROBERTO SCANDIUZZI (bass)
Abigaille ELIZABETH CONNELL (sop)
Fenena VIOLETTA URMANA (sop)
Abdallo JAN MARTIN (tenor)
Anna .....CLAUDIA PALLINI (sop) Chorus of the Grand
Theatre, Geneva
Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi Acts 1 and 2 8.10 Stendhal in Italy
"La Scala is the general salon of the city of Milan; there is no society excepting at this theatre." Alex Jennings reads an account of a visit the French author made in 1816 to La
Scala, in an adaptation by Frank Felsenstein.
8.40 Acts 3 and 4