Nabucco in Prague: handsome but over-ambitious

Ivo Stánchev (Zaccaria)

National Theatre Opera Ballet

Stepan Drobit (Nabucco)

Lilla Lee (Abigaille)

By Frank Kuznik, 23 March 2024

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“the calamity and passion missing onstage were all in the music, which ran the full emotional gamut”

Reviewed at State Opera (Státní opera), Prague on 21 March 2024

Verdi, Nabucco

Prague State Opera

Andriy Yurkevych, Conductor

Piotr Staniszewski, Conductor

Tomáš Ondřej Pilař, Director

Petr Vítek, Set Designer

Dana Haklová, Costume Designer

Daniel Tesař, Lighting Designer

Prague State Opera Orchestra

Prague State Opera Chorus

Jitka Slavíková, Dramaturgy

Nikoloz Lagvilava, Nabucco

Stepan Drobit, Nabucco

Lilla Lee, Abigaille

Oksana Nosatova, Abigaille

Markéta Cukrová, Fenena

Stanislava Jirků, Fenena

Ivo Stanchev, Zaccaria

Iurie Maimescu, Zaccaria

Richard Samek, Ismaele

Josef Moravec, Ismaele

Jan Hnyk, High Priest

Miloš Horák, High Priest

Vít Šantora, Abdallo

Michal Bragagnolo, Abdallo

Veronika Kaiserová, Anna

Eliška Gattringerová, Anna

Martin Šinták, Choreography

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.

Nabucco in Prague: a handsome production that tries to do too much