Verdi's fiery breakthrough opera about freedom, oppression and redemption. Beautiful arias, magnificent choruses - such as the hit song "Prisoners' Choir" - and an all-Italian team.

The warring king Nabucco has two daughters: Abigaille, who vengefully plots for power, and Fenena, who loves a man from the opposing side. Who is good and who is evil is hard to decide. Those who have nothing left to lose can resort to extreme methods in order for the country, faith and love to survive.

The Italian team led by director Jacopo Spirei places the biblical story of King Nebuchadnezzar in the present day, where an oppressed people revolts against their tyrants. Fear and hope change places when one fundamentalist regime is replaced by another.

Italian conductor Giancarlo Andretta returns to Gothenburg Opera to conduct Verdi's fiery breakthrough opera, whose musical power ranges from exquisite arias to grand choruses. Gothenburg Opera's baritone Mats Persson portrays Nabucco, whose view of himself and the society around him changes during the course of the story. The chorus plays a major role in the opera as supporters of the warring sides.