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A strongly cast Nabucco opens at Lyric Opera of Chicago

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“Yet blowing everyone out of the water was Tatiana Serjan as Abigaille”
Reviewed at Lyric Opera House, Chicago on 23 January 2016
Verdi, Nabucco
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Carlo Rizzi, Conductor
Matthew Ozawa, Director
Michael Yeargan, Set Designer
Jane Greenwood, Costume Designer
Željko Lučić, Nabucco
Tatiana Serjan, Abigaille
Elizabeth DeShong, Fenena
Sergei Skorokhodov, Ismaele
Dmitry Belosselskiy, Zaccaria
Stefan Szkafarowsky, High Priest
Jesse Donner, Abdallo
Laura Wilde, Anna
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