Performer: Adam Diegel

The white hot intensity and conviction of the duet between Santuzza and Turiddu encapsulated the strengths of this performance.

Sondra Radvanovsky scores a rousing success in the taxing title role of Bellini's masterpiece in New York.

During Verdi’s bicentenary month and year, it’s fitting that Opera Philadelphia kicked off its 2013/14 season with the work that Verdi himself considers as having launched his own career – Nabucco. Written at a time when Italy longed to be free of foreign rule, Verdi’s name and the expression “Viva Verdi” became synonymous with Italian nationalism and unification.