Giuseppe Verdi
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Born 1813-10-10
Died 1901-01-27
Busseto, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas.
Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him, becoming one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history.
In his early operas Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi however did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).
His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, and the bicentenary of his birth in 2013 was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.
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53 Sundays
La Traviata
La Traviata
Grisù
Jérusalem
Verdi: Oberto
About Dry Grasses
Macbeth
Macbeth
Il Trovatore
Aida
Who's Afraid of Opera?
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
8 ½ Women
This is Opera
Golda Schultz, Rolando Villazón, and Ludovic Tézier @ Neuschwanstein Castle 2025
Verdi: Aida
Stiffelio - The Met
Verdi: Aida
Verdi: Attila
Verdi: Nabucco
Verdi: Alzira
Verdi: Ernani
Verdi: Otello
San Diego OperaTalk! with Nic Reveles
Bains de Minuit
Verdi: Nabucco
Verdi: Stiffelio
Macbeth
Aida
The Prisoner of If Castle
The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend
Verdi Gala
Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata
Aida
Il Trovatore - Verdi
Verdi: La Traviata
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi
Honeysuckle
Aida
La traviata
Falstaff
Verdi: Don Carlo
Mathilde
Luisa Miller - Wiener Staatsoper
Verdi: Luisa Miller
Aida
Aida
Messa da Requiem (2011)
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Falstaff
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Verdi: Aida (Bregenz Festival)
Acting
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Verdi Otello
Verdi: Falstaff
Verdi: Otello
Pavarotti in Central Park
Falstaff
Messa da Requiem (2011)
Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
Writing
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