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The Cooperative Presents Nabucco
August 30 @ 7:30 pm - September 7 @ 6:00 pm
The Cooperative presents Verdi’s powerful opera Nabucco, an opera in four acts and the company’s largest undertaking to date.
It is Milan, 1842. Not yet afforded nationhood and under the oppression and occupation of a larger, powerful regime, the first audiences of Nabucco found a contemporary political and social resonance which has accompanied the opera ever since. Stark in its depiction of oppression, occupation and an endless, omnipresent search for meaning and identity, Nabucco speaks to our world today, as strongly as to the world of its premiere. Disarmingly pertinent, this is an opera for the here and now.
Conducted by Toby Wong aided by assistant conductor Thompson Lee, direction is by Menila Moineaux with production and lighting design by Sandra Vargas.
The Cooperative is a young Sydney-based arts company, founded to stage productions of new, rare, and canonic works, which are impactful, relevant, and necessitate social change.
The cast: Nabucco Tristan Entwistle/ Abigaille Livia Brash/ Young Abigaille Violet Rose Olds/ Zaccaria Bernard Leong-Lokman/ Fenena Angelique Tot/ Ismaele Sam Elmi/Anna Samanta Lestavel/Abdallo Seungkwon Jang/Il Gran Sacerdote Dale Schilling with The Cooperative Chorus, Chamber Orchestra, and Children’s Ensemble.
Three performances: 30 August, 5 September | 7:30PM/ 7 September | 6PM
Tickets: Pay as you feel. Come as you are.
https://www.thecooperativeopera.org/