Operas set in the Levant

Nabucco (; short for Nabucodonosor , i.e. "Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Daniel, and on the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu. However, Antonio Cortese's ballet adaptation of the play (with its necessary simplifications), given at La Scala in 1836, was a more important source for Solera than the play itself. Under its original name of Nabucodonosor, the opera was first performed at

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gioacchino Rossini

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Joseph Haydn

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Antonín Dvořák

opera by Eugen d'Albert

opéra comique

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer