Nabucco - Ticket for the Opera Season 2008

"Va pensiero sull'ali d'orate" is one of the most famous aria in the whole lyric panorama and a symbol of the Italian culture.

Nabucco is a lyric drama in 4 acts. Music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Temistocle Solera.
It premièred on 9th March 1842 at "La Scala" Theatre in Milan and it was at once considered an opera of extraordinary value, that represents a real turning-point in the career of the young composer Verdi. The great success of "Nabucco" is strictly linked to the Italian Risorgimento period and to its popular aria "Va' pensiero sull'ali dorate" ("Go, thought, on golden wings").

In the third act the Jews, oppressed by King Nabucco of Babylon, sing it to feel nearer to the people in the Lombardo-Veneto region, who are submitted under the Austrian domination: "Va' pensiero" becomes soon the song of all oppressed people in Italy.