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Opera – Slovak National Theater – Nabucco
Venue: Slovak National Theatre Historical Building
Date: - at 7:00 p.m.
The Slovak National Theater will be performing Verdi´s opera – Nabucco. Tickets range from € 10 to € 35 and they can be purchased at the theatre´s box office. Our Bratislava Guide Concierge can also buy tickets and deliver them by hand to your hotel or send them by post to any location worldwide. The opera is consistently of high quality, yet tickets are just a fraction of the price of the opera in Vienna. Performance length: 2 hours 45 minutes with 2 intermissions.
Dramma lirico in four parts (sung in Italian).
Nabucco (1842), which in a previous production at the Slovak National theatre notched up a record 420 performances over three decades, returns to the venue in a new, updated, guise. The power of the work resides above all in the crowd scenes and the choruses, of which the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves - which at the time it was written came to express the yearning of the Italian nation for independence - retains it popularity to this day. The opera treats a biblical tale from the Old Testament: the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco) invade Jerusalem, destroy the temple of Solomon and take the Jewish nation off into captivity. The God of the Jews (Jehovah), however, punishes the king by striking him with madness. Nabucco, who has also to contend with the intrigues of his supposed daughter Abigaille, in the end concedes his guilt, acknowledges the power and magnitude of the god Jehovah and returns the Jews to freedom.
The Slovak National Theatre has box offices at both the New Building (entrance from Olejkarska Street) and Historical Building (entrance from Jesenskeho Street). The box office is always open an hour before the start of each event and half an hour after the start of each event as well as being open year round 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. during the week, Saturdays 9:00 a.m. to noon.
You can also order tickets via our concierge service below.
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