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Sab, 21/06/2025 - 16:39
“Va, pensiero,” also known as “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves,” comes from Giuseppe Verdi’s 1842 opera Nabucco. The song tells the story of the Jews’ longing for their homeland during their captivity in Babylon after the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. The lyrics are inspired by Psalm 137 and begin with the words: “Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – “Fly, thought, on wings of gold.”
Although the song is set in a biblical context, its message of a lost homeland and a yearning for freedom deeply moved Italians at the time. Italy was divided and under foreign domination, so the song quickly gained the status of a national symbol and the unofficial anthem of the Risorgimento movement, which sought to unify the country.
It is not only a musical masterpiece, but also an emotional manifesto of freedom and identity.
PaotrLaouen
Lun, 30/03/2020 - 22:22
Il libretto è di Temistocle Solera.
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Sab, 21/06/2025 - 16:39
“Va, pensiero,” also known as “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves,” comes from Giuseppe Verdi’s 1842 opera Nabucco. The song tells the story of the Jews’ longing for their homeland during their captivity in Babylon after the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. The lyrics are inspired by Psalm 137 and begin with the words: “Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – “Fly, thought, on wings of gold.”
Although the song is set in a biblical context, its message of a lost homeland and a yearning for freedom deeply moved Italians at the time. Italy was divided and under foreign domination, so the song quickly gained the status of a national symbol and the unofficial anthem of the Risorgimento movement, which sought to unify the country.
It is not only a musical masterpiece, but also an emotional manifesto of freedom and identity.
Interpres
Sab, 21/06/2025 - 16:31
The full, correct and formatted text of Giuseppe Verdi's "Va pensiero" is as follows:
"Va, pensiero"
Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate
Va, ti posa sui clivi, sui colli
Ove olezzano tepide e molli
L'aure dolci del suolo natal
Del Giordano le rive saluta
Di Sionne le torri atterrate
O, mia patria, sì bella e perduta
O, membranza, sì cara e fatal
Arpa d'or dei fatidici vati
Perché muta dal salice pendi?
Le memorie nel petto raccendi
Ci favella del tempo che fu
O simile di Sòlima ai fati
Traggi un suono di crudo lamento
O t'ispiri il Signore un concento
Che ne infonda al patire virtù
Che ne infonda al patire virtù
Che ne infonda al patire virtù
Al patire virtù
Interpres
Sab, 21/06/2025 - 16:41
“Va, pensiero,” also known as “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves,” comes from Giuseppe Verdi’s 1842 opera Nabucco. The song tells the story of the Jews’ longing for their homeland during their captivity in Babylon after the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. The lyrics are inspired by Psalm 137 and begin with the words: “Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” – “Fly, thought, on wings of gold.”
Although the song is set in a biblical context, its message of a lost homeland and a yearning for freedom deeply moved Italians at the time. Italy was divided and under foreign domination, so the song quickly gained the status of a national symbol and the unofficial anthem of the Risorgimento movement, which sought to unify the country.
It is not only a musical masterpiece, but also an emotional manifesto of freedom and identity.
Interpres
Sab, 21/06/2025 - 16:45
"Nabucco" is a four-act opera by Giuseppe Verdi, which premiered on March 9, 1842 at La Scala in Milan. It was this work that brought Verdi his first great success and launched his brilliant career as a composer2.
Plot
The opera is set in Jerusalem and Babylon around 587 BC and tells the story of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), who conquers Jerusalem and takes the Jews into captivity. Dramatic love and political themes play out in the background, including the rivalry between his daughters – Abigaille and Fenena – and the struggle for power and spiritual redemption.
Symbolism
The most famous fragment of the opera is the chorus "Va, pensiero", or the Song of the Hebrew Slaves. The song became a symbol of the longing for freedom and was interpreted as a metaphor for Italy's situation under foreign rule. In the 19th century, it gained the status of an unofficial anthem of the Risorgimento movement, which sought the unification of Italy.
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Sab, 21/06/2025 - 16:45
Contemporary productions
The opera remains one of Verdi’s most frequently performed works. Today, on June 21, 2025, “Nabucco” opens the Festival at the Arena di Verona in a spectacular new production by Stefano Poda. The production combines Baroque inspirations with futuristic visions, and features over 400 artists and over 3,000 costumes4.
This work is not only musically moving, but also deeply humanistic—a story of pride, fall, forgiveness, and spiritual rebirth.
va pensiero sounds to me like the quest for the revelation of a secret between God's Children and he.
The song tells Pensionero to take flight on golden wings over the mountains and over the oceans where he will find the place that children go every night after listening to this lullaby.
The lullaby in this song refers to life cycle- of birth, youth and old age. The children are the elders. Night refers to aged or late in lifeor even death.
It is Pensionero's job is to find out where it is that they go when they die and leave this physical world.
Perhaps pensionero is to find the fountain of youth? or, perhaps pensionero is to find the secret to where this particular kind of people (people with pure souls) are found.
The song says "there you will find the heroes protecting their innocense because their simple souls are so pure and wonderful."
This could symbolize that heroes are special angels from God or guardian angels.
The song says "they are alive and protecting their innocence."
This could symbolize these angels as being fierce with depth and wisdom
The song says "let this dream carry on for all night long."
The dream could symbolize an advantage that who ever is commanding pensiero as having over these children and they really dont want it to end. They dont want to lose this advantage so they want the dream to go on.
I will stop here