Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic struggle of Zaccaria and the Jews suppressed by Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his vengeful daughter, Abigaille. But to Italians fighting for their freedom from Austria, Verdi’s first great opera was an inspiring call to arms.

• The Metropolitan Opera
• Juan Pons
• Maria Guleghina
• Gwyn Hughes Jones
• Wendy White
• Samuel Ramey
• Alexandra Deshorties
• Stephen Morscheck
• Rafael Suárez