Desc: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco, Dramma lirico in four acts: Directed by Tiziano Mancini. With Leo Nucci, Bruno Ribeiro, Riccardo Zanellato, Dimitra Theodossiou. Nabucco was Verdi's third work for the stage and proved his first great success when performed in 1842. It deals with the Hebrew's attempts to break free from the yoke of their Babylonian oppressors and is nowadays numbered among Verdi's most popular works, not least on account of its famous Chorus of Hebrew Slaves, which has one of the best-loved melodies in the whole history of opera.