Nabucco Amartüvshin Enkhbat
Abigaille Maria José Siri
Zaccaria Evgeny Stavinsky
Fenena, Nabucco’s daughter Szilvia Vörös
Ismaele, King of Babylon István Horváth
Anna, Zaccaria’s elder sister Ágnes Kristófi
Abdallo, officer of the Babylonian king Donát Varga
High Priest of Baal István Gáspár
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos)
Conductor: Andrea Battistoni
The Hungarian National Philharmonic’s Opera season ticket for the 2025/2026 season begins with one of the biggest hits in opera in Verdi’s Nabucco. The four-act biblically themed work – the first by the composer to achieve genuine success – will be conducted by the excellent
Italian maestro Andrea Battistoni, with the key roles to be performed by a Mongolian baritone, a Uruguayan soprano and an Italian bass: Amartüvshin Enkhbat (Nabucco), Maria José Siri (Abigaille) and Evgeny Stavinsky (Zaccaria). The diversity of the international cast
for this concert-format performance will only be enhanced by the top members of the Hungarian singing community. The Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos) also plays a major part in the production.
Giuseppe Verdi was 29 years old when Nabucco, his first truly successful work and a recounting of the biblical story of the suffering of the Jewish people enslaved by the Babylonians, was premiered. At a stroke, he became a known and successful composer of musical theatre, while the work was adopted by the Italian people as a symbol of their desire for freedom. The concert-format performance of the four-act opera is a worthy opening to the Hungarian National Philharmonic’s Opera season ticket for 2025/2026.
The conductor the ensemble attracted for the production is Andrea Battistoni, who speaks the language of the Italian repertoire as his mother tongue, while the cast of superb soloists is international: the People’s Artist of Mongolia Amartüvshin Enkhbat sings Nabucco, the
Uruguayan-born Maria José Siri portrays Abigaille and the Russian Evgeny Stavinsky appears as the high priest Zaccaria. Anyone who knows what an important role the famous Freedom Chorus has to play in the Opera will have no doubt as to the significance of the Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos) in this production.
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