Giuseppe Verdi
Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 10, 1813
Day of Death: January 27, 1901 (87 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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I Vespri Siciliani
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Verdi: Falstaff - Teatro Real
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Verdi: Falstaff - Teatro Real
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Salzburg Festival)
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
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Aida: Grand Théâtre de Genève
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Macbeth
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The Royal Opera House: Verdi's Macbeth
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Verdi: Don Carlo
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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The 350th Anniversary Inaugural Gala
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Verdi: Attila
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Verdi: Otello
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Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
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Verdi: Aida
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The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
2017
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Il club dei 27
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Rigoletto
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La Traviata
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The ROH Live: Rigoletto
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Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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The Opera House
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Verdi: Nabucco
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Macbeth
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Aida
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Nabucco
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Aida
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La Traviata
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Luisa Miller - San Francisco Opera
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Verdi Nabucco
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La Traviata
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The Met — Il Trovatore
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Aida - Arena di Verona
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Verdi: Requiem
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Les Vêpres siciliennes
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Verdi: Don Carlo
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I due Foscari
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Verdi: Don Carlo
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Il Trovatore
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Verdi Requiem
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The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
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Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)
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Verdi: Falstaff
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Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata
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Aida
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Don Carlo
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I Masnadieri
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Stiffelio
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Alzira
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La battaglia di Legnano
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Verdi: Ernani
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The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
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The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera
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I Due Foscari - Verdi
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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Aida
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San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto
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Falstaff (Zurich)
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Rigoletto
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Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
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Rigoletto
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Verdi: Aida (Bregenz Festival)
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Il Trovatore
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Un giorno di regno
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I vespri siciliani
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Simon Boccanegra
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Attila
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Attila
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Verdi Attila
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Simon Boccanegra
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Rigoletto a Mantova
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Rigoletto - Semperoper Dresden
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Verdi: Rigoletto (Teatro Regio di Parma)
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The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth
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La Traviata
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La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof Zürich
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Don Carlo - ROH
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Giovanna d'Arco
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Il corsaro
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Verdi: Otello
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Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
2007
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Verdi: La Traviata
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Luisa Miller
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Verdi: La Traviata (Teatro Regio di Parma)
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Oberto
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Oberto
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La forza del destino
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La traviata in Paris
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Nabucco
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Gran Gala di Verdi
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Gran Gala di Verdi
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Otello
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Rigoletto
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Nabucco
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La Traviata
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Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala
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Rigoletto
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Macbeth
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Otello
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