The emotional scene of ‘Nabucco’ that after 151 years Letizia and the NATO companions saw exclusively

Nabucco by Verdi It had been 151 years without sounding in the Royal Theatre. Something difficult to understand when it is one of the most popular operas in the history of opera. In particular the I think, the choir of the third act of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, sung by the slaves of Nabucco, is one of the most emotional and well-known moments in the history of music. 151 years after its last performance at the Madrid Coliseum, an anomaly that the artistic director of the Teatro Real, Joan Matabosch, director considers that “it was time” to amend.

It was precisely Matabosh who, together with the president of the Teatro Real, Gregory Maranonand the CEO, Ignacio Garcia-Belenguerwho acted as luxury guides to the Queen Letizia already companions leaders gathered in Madrid last week at the Teatro Real. Coinciding with his visit, the choir performed I thinkthus became the exclusive group of people outside the theater who could contemplate this emotional moment of Verdi’s opera as an audience.

Yesterday at the Summer preview of Nabucco it was played for the first time, already with the theater full, which broke into prolonged applause after the performance by the choir of the Teatro Real in Madrid. Nabucco, Verdi’s masterpiece, was performed in Spain in 1844, first in Barcelona and then in Madrid, becoming an indispensable part of theaters around the world.

They attended the visit to the Royal Theater last Thursday, in addition to Queen Letizia, the wife of the Prime Minister, Begona Gomez Fernandez; Ingrid Schulerud (NATO), cute branch (Albanian), jodei haydon (Australia), Annik Penders (Belgium), Andri Anastasiades (Cyprus), Sanja Music Milanovic (Croatia), Juraj Rizman (Slovakia), Brigitte Macron (France) Andrea Levite (Latvia) Diana Nausediene (Lithuania) Gauthier Destenay (Luxembourg), Lydia Dukanovic (Montenegro), Elizabeth Pendarovska (North Macedonia) and Agata Kornhauser-Duda (Poland).