Verdi's 'Nabucco' Live in HD

Grinnell College will stream Verdi's Nabucco at noon on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, as part of the "Metropolitan Live in HD" movie theatre transmissions program.

Nabucco will be shown in the Harris Center Cinema, 1114 10th Ave. Don Smith, professor emeritus of history, will present the opera talk at 11:30 a.m.

This opera is set in Jerusalem, in sixth century B.C., as the Israelites pray for help against their oppressor Nabucco, the King of Babylon. The story follows Fenena, the heroic daughter of Nabucco who works to free the Israelites, and her half-sister Abigaille, a warrior woman determined to rule empires. 

James Levine conducts, and Liudmyla Monastyrska and Jamie Barton star as Abigaille and Fenena, respectively. 

Nabucco is the fourth in a series of 10 operas to be broadcast this season at the Harris Center. All performances begin at noon, unless otherwise noted. Opera talks start a half-hour before the broadcast.

The remaining operas this season are:

• Jan. 21: Gounod's Romeo et Juliette with an opera talk by Kelly Maynard, associate professor of history.
• Feb. 25: Dvorak's Rusalka with an opera talk by Jennifer Brown, associate professor of music.
• March 11: Verdi's La Traviata with an opera talk by Jennifer Brown, associate professor of music.
• March 25: Mozart's Idomeneo. There will be no opera talk before this performance.
• April 22: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with an opera talk by Kelly Herold, associate professor of Russian.
• May 13, 11:30 a.m.: Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. There will be no opera talk before this performance.

Refreshments will be available for sale in the lobby of the cinema before each opera and during intermission.

Tickets are available at the Pioneer Bookshop and at the door on the day of the show. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, children, and Met Opera members.

The Office of the President has generously funded tickets for Grinnell College faculty, staff, and students, and tickets are available for free at all locations. Family members not employed by the College are required to purchase tickets.

Grinnell College welcomes the participation of people with disabilities. Harris Cinema is equipped with an induction hearing loop system, which enables individuals with hearing aids set to T-Coil to hear the program. Accommodation requests may be made to Conference Operations and events.

The College also welcomes the presence of minors at all age-appropriate public events and for informal visits, with the understanding that a parent, legal guardian, or other responsible adult assumes full responsibility for their child’s safety and behavior during such visits or events. In these cases the College expects that an adult responsible for the visiting child takes measures to ensure the child’s safety and sees that the child complies with directions of College personnel. Grinnell College is not responsible for supervision of minors on campus.