Nabucco Is the Jan. 6, 2024, Met Opera Saturday Matinee Broadcast

Summary: Nabucco is the Jan. 6, 2024, Met Opera Saturday matinee broadcast, airing as fifth of the 2023-2024 season's 27 Saturday matinee radio broadcasts.

Milanese maestro Daniele Callegari conducts all 14 performances of the sixth revival of Elijah Moshinsky's production of Verdi's Nabucco in the 2023-2024 season; photo by Roberto Ricci: Operawire, via Facebook Sep. 28, 2023

Nabucco is the Jan. 6, 2024, Met Opera Saturday matinee broadcast, airing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time as the fifth of the 2023-2024 season's lineup of 27 Saturday matinee radio broadcasts.

Nabucco by 19th-century Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901) receives 14 performances in the 2023-2024 season. The Verdian opera opened Thursday, Sep. 28, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The second through sixth performances took place Sunday matinee, Oct. 1, at 3:00 p.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, Oct. 7, at 1:00 p.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 14, at 8:00 p.m.; and Friday, Dec. 29, at 7:00 p.m.

The season's seventh through 14th, closing performances are scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 7:30 p.m.; the Saturday matinee radio broadcast, Jan. 6, at 1:00 p.m.; Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 13, at 8:00 p.m.; Thursday, Jan. 18, at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday matinee, Jan. 21, at 3:00 p.m.; and Friday, Jan. 26, at 8:00 p.m.

The opera's 14 performances mark the sixth revival of the new 2000-2001 production debuted Thursday, March 8, 2001, by Elijah Moshinsky (Jan. 8, 1946-Jan. 14, 2021). The Australian opera director had made his Met Opera debut Monday, Feb. 4, 1980, in the opera company's 153rd performance of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera.

Daniele Callegari conducts all 14th performances in the 2023-2024 season. The Milanese maestro had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, Sep. 24, 2008, in the opera company's 283rd performance of La Gioconda by 19th-century Italian opera composer Amilcare Ponchielli (Aug. 31, 1834-Jan. 16, 1886).

George Gagnidze sings the title role in all 14 performances. The Georgian operatic baritone had made his Met Opera debut Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, in the title role in the opera company’s 817th performance of Verdi's Rigoletto.

Liudmyla Monastyrska appears in all 14 performances as Abigaille, who discovers that she is not of royal birth; loses in love to her rival, a true princess, Fenena; and who self-poisons in repentance for her vendetta against Fenena. Her appearances as Abigaille in the 2023-2024 season mark Liudmyla Monastyrska's second reprisal of the role that she had added to her Met Opera portfolio during the Moshinsky production's fifth revival in the 2016-2017 season. The Ukrainian spinto soprano had made her Met Opera debut Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, in the title role in the opera company's 1,123rd performance of Verdi's Aida.

Maria Barakova appears in all 14 performances as Princess Fenena, reciprocally loved by Ismaele, nephew of the King of Jerusalem. The Russian mezzo-soprano had made her Met Opera debut Thursday, Sep. 29, 2022, as Sonyetka in the opera company's 22nd performance of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Russian composer, librettist and pianist Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович; Sep. 25, 1906-Aug. 9, 1975). Her appearances as Princess Fenena add a second role to Maria Barakova's Met Opera portfolio.

South Korean baritone-turned-tenor SeokJong Baek made his Met Opera debut Thursday, Sep. 28, 2023, as Ismaele in the opera company's sixth revival of Australian opera director Elijah Moshinsky's 2000-2001 new production of Verdi's Nabucco; selfie by SeokJong Baek outside of the Metropolitan Opera House at Upper West Side of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex, known as Lincoln Center: SeokJong Baek seokjong.baek, via Instagram Sep. 13, 2023

SeokJong Baek sings Ismaele in Nabucco's first through fourth and sixth through 14th performances, including the Saturday matinee radio broadcast on Jan. 6, 2024. The South Korean tenor's appearance as Ismaele in the 2023-2024 season's opening performance of Nabucco, Thursday, Sep. 28, marked his Met Opera debut.

SeokJong Baek shares Ismaele with Rafael Davila, who sings the role in the fifth performance, Wednesday, Oct. 11. The Puerto Rican tenor had made his Met Opera debut Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, as Don José in the opera company's 1,002nd performance of Carmen by French Romantic Era composer Georges Bizet (Oct. 25, 1838-June 3, 1875).

Dmitry Belosselskiy sings Zaccaria, High Priest of the Jews, in all 14 performances. His appearances as Zaccaria in the 2023-2024 season mark Dmitry Belosselskiy's second reprisal of the role in which he had made his Met Opera debut, during the fourth revival's ninth performance. The Ukrainian bass had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, in the opera company's 54th performance of Verdi's Babylon- and Jerusalem-set opera.

The production team for Elijah Moshinsky's directorship of Nabucco comprised John Napier, set designer; Andreane Neofitou, costume designer; and Howard Harrison, lighting designer. English costume and set designer John Napier (born March 1, 1944) and Cyprus-born, London-raised costume designer Andreane Neofitou had made their Met Opera debuts in the new production's debut Thursday, March 8, 2001. British lighting designer Howard Harrison had made his Met Opera debut Thursday, Jan. 11, 1996, in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Makropulos Case, composed by Czech composer Leoš Janáček (July 3, 1854-Aug. 12, 1928) and directed by Elijah Moshinsky.

Puccini's La Bohème airs Jan. 13 as the 2023-2024 season's sixth Saturday matinee radio broadcast. Met Opera's 38th revival of Tuscan film, opera and television director and producer Franco Zeffirelli's 1981-1982 new production airs at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

image of SeokJong Baek sitting comfortably on the red-carpeted, two-wing cantilever staircase in the Metropolitan Opera House Lobby on Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2023, by New York-based Bangladeshi photographer Amir Hamja for "A Singer Arrives at the Met, After a Detour," published by David Belcher, reporting from The New York Times Seoul Office, South Korea, in Sep. 25, 2023, issue of The New York Times: SeokJong Baek seokjong.baek, via Instagram Sep. 26, 2023

Acknowledgment

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Image credits:

Milanese maestro Daniele Callegari conducts all 14 performances of the sixth revival of Elijah Moshinsky's production of Verdi's Nabucco in the 2023-2024 season; photo by Roberto Ricci: Operawire, via Facebook Sep. 28, 2023, @ https://www.facebook.com/operawire/posts/pfbid0128TNrea4MqDAvLUkQG2FKZ9cdijyp13UUmj5CWQMnCjzzRgWmPCdgUevcDTt7KBl

South Korean baritone-turned-tenor SeokJong Baek made his Met Opera debut Thursday, Sep. 28, 2023, as Ismaele in the opera company's sixth revival of Australian opera director Elijah Moshinsky's 2000-2001 new production of Verdi's Nabucco; selfie by SeokJong Baek outside of the Metropolitan Opera House at Upper West Side of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex, known as Lincoln Center: SeokJong Baek seokjong.baek, via Instagram Sep. 13, 2023, @ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxJ-34gsFsw/

image of SeokJong Baek sitting comfortably on the red-carpeted, two-wing cantilever staircase in the Metropolitan Opera House Lobby on Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2023, by New York-based Bangladeshi photographer Amir Hamja for "A Singer Arrives at the Met, After a Detour," published by David Belcher, reporting from The New York Times Seoul Office, South Korea, in Sep. 25, 2023, issue of The New York Times: SeokJong Baek seokjong.baek, via Instagram Sep. 26, 2023, @ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxqjhepx5hs/

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