Giuseppe Verdi was a defining figure in Italian opera credited with reviving the form after the death of Rossini. Nabucco was his breakthrough opera and it was a great success playing across Europe and marking the beginning of a long and fruitful career for the composer. The opera includes one of the most famous melodies ever written created to express the Hebrews' homesickness and adopted by the Italian people as a kind of second national anthem. The song was ""Va Pensiero
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