Note 125 — Chapter XIII · VERDI AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

This ludicrous concession to archiepiscopal scruples recalls the production of Nabucco in London, where the title was changed to Nino, Rè d’Assyria, in deference to public sentiment—because, forsooth, Nabucco was a Biblical personage. One can fancy how the British public of that day would have received Salomé!