Verdi - Nabucco - Milnes, Raimondi, Bumbry - 1979DVD9 - PAL - 4:3 - All Regions - Dolby Digital 2.0, PCM - 128min.
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Italian
Sherrill Milnes ... Nabucco
Carlo Costa ... Ismaele
Ruggero Raimondi ... Zaccaria
Grace Bumbry ... Abigaille
Viorica Cortez ... Fenena
Marc Vento ... Il Gran Sacerdote
Robert Dumé ... Abdallo
Janine Boulogne ... Anna
Nello Santi .... conductor
Grace Bumbry & Sherrill Milnes - Duet Abigaille/Nabucco 1/2
The picture quality isn't excellent, the sound recording definitely makes this version worthy of its DVD release. The music and singing are absolutely top-notch, more than making up for a silly, bumbling and boring story. I recommend watching this without the subtitles, as the text will only distract, and detract, from the music.
The best singer here is Abigaille (Grace Bumbry), but the entire cast have fine voices. Verdi is to opera what Shakespeare is to literature, and his singular talent for opera is demonstrated by the way this composer always gives precedence to the voices. The music, suitably great and grand as it is, always plays back-up to the voices, never drowning them out like certain other composers one might mention (*cough* Wagner *cough*). Comment IMDB
