The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon.
The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and the tempi are super-fast, perhaps to get everyone indoors before the rain.
Youngjun Park is Nabucco, Aigul Akhmetshina sings Fenena.
Did anyone consult the conductor? He’s the Palestine-born Pinchas Steinberg.
Decontextualised? Deconductorised.
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