Ludovic Tézier delivers a noble Nabucco in Naples

Ludovic Tézier (Nabucco)

Ludovic Tézier (Nabucco) and Marina Rebeka (Abigaille)

Michele Pertusi (Zaccaria) and chorus

Ludovic Tézier, Marina Rebeka, Cassandre Berthon (Fenena) and Piero Pretti (Ismaele)

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 19 January 2026

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“quintessentially Verdian: the conflict between political power and private affections”

Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 18 January 2026

Verdi, Nabucco

Teatro di San Carlo

Riccardo Frizza, Conductor

Andreas Homoki, Director

Wolfgang Gussmann, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Susana Mendoza, Costume Designer

Franck Evin, Lighting Designer

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

Ludovic Tézier, Nabucco

Marina Rebeka, Abigaille

Cassandre Berthon, Fenena

Michele Pertusi, Zaccaria

Piero Pretti, Ismaele

Lorenzo Mazzucchelli, High Priest

Francesco Domenico Doto, Abdallo

Caterina Marchesini, Anna

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*****

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.