Verdi Year: a tribute

Obviously, the music of the great Italian Romantic composer, Giuseppe Verdi, has little need of anniversary years; its ability to touch the heartstrings with its instinctive musicality and expressiveness has earned it a permanent place in the forefront of the concert scene.
The Athens State Orchestra is staging a concertante performance of Verdi’s celebrated opera, Nabucco, to mark the bi-centenary of the composer’s birth. Verdi’s third opera, and for many his first masterpiece, premiered at La Scala in 1842, winning its composer international fame and recognition.
The celebrated conductor George Petrou leads a group of distinguished Greek opera singers in a performance which conveys the unparalleled magic of Verdi’s music with a rare immediacy. Verdi tells a stirring tale of love, war and religious conflict set against a familiar biblical backdrop with superb arias, stirring choruses and rich orchestral tones.