Verdi's Nabucco premieres
1842 · Work
Verdi's first triumph at La Scala, whose chorus of Hebrew exiles, 'Va, pensiero', becomes an anthem of Italians longing for a free homeland.
On these timelines: Classical Music, Italy (post-476 CE), Master, Arts and Thoughts, The Unification of Italy
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- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)