Talk:Nabucco
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Is Nabucodonosor Nebuchadnezzar?
With the article expansion, Nabucco is now properly associated with Nebuchadnezzar (sic).
[edit] librettist
The librettist was not Bartolomeo Merelli but Temistocle Solera, see alsohere. With that, I have my doubts about the story of the libretto being offered first to Nicolai, and being rejected by Verdi at first. Since I don't know what to change, but the text was certainly false, I've made this paragraph invisible, hoping someone else can clarify. Errabee 22:16, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- How odd. All I can say on my end is that the information came from the text cited in the article. It's a fairly prominent text in the Verdi world, and such a massive error seems unlikely. Interpretation error, of course, is always possible on my part. I'm leaving town for college tomorrow (and my computer there won't be available for four @Q#*& days! :), so I unfortunately can't do much research. If I remember I will look deeper into the problem.Spamguy 04:33, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
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- Maybe the only thing that needs fixing is the name of the librettist in the text. I simply made the text invisible as a precaution. Errabee 13:00, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- And I've done some research of my own: according to this page (Italian) Bartolomeo Merelli was the agent of the Scala theatre, giving Verdi the contract to write the operas Un giorno di regno and Nabucco. Furthermore, while Solera was indeed the librettist for Verdi's first opera, Felice Romani wrote the libretto for Un giorno di regno.
And according to this page (English translation) it was indeed first rejected by Nicolai. I'll make the appropriate changes. Errabee 13:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
I have added a synopsis - my own text. Kleinzach 2 November 2005
[edit] Nabucodonosor
Shouldn't Nabucodonosor redirect to the emperor, or to the disambiguation? 200.230.213.152 05:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
