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Giuseppe Verdi
1813-10-10 · Busseto, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.
Known for
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
About Dry Grasses
53 Sundays
8 ½ Women
The Prisoner of If Castle
In My Room
La traviata
Otello
Aida
Grisù
La traviata
Aida
Tosca's Kiss
Verdi: Rigoletto
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Nora Helmer
Movie credits · 342
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Macbeth
La Traviata 2026
Simon Boccanegra – Dutch National Opera and Ballet
53 Sundays
Concerto di Capodanno La Fenice 2026
Macbeth (Teatro Regio di Torino, 2026)
Verdi: Nabucco - Arena di Verona, 2025
Attila
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco - Arena di Verona 2025
Un giorno di regno
La Traviata
Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro Regio di Parma
Otello- Israeli Opera
The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
Concerto per Agrigento - Capitale italiana della Cultura 2025
Asmik Grigorian in Kaunas St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral
Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata @ Grand Théâtre de Genève
Golda Schultz, Rolando Villazón, and Ludovic Tézier @ Neuschwanstein Castle 2025
The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend
Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
La Forza Del Destino - Gran Teatre del Liceu
Macbeth: Washington National Opera
La Traviata - Nationaltheater Mannheim
Don Carlo
Hannover Klassik Open Air 2024
The Metropolitan Opera: La Forza del Destino
The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco
Asmik Grigorian @ Salzburg Festival 2024
Don Carlo
Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023
About Dry Grasses
Nabucco - Grand Théâtre de Genève
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
Maledictis
Mantoue en musiques Avec Lea Desandre
Verdi Gala
TV credits · 5
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