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Giuseppe Verdi
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, an…
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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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2027
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello
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2026
The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Macbeth
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2026
La Traviata 2026
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2026
Simon Boccanegra – Dutch National Opera and Ballet
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2026
53 Sundays
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2026
Concerto di Capodanno La Fenice 2026
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2026
Macbeth (Teatro Regio di Torino, 2026)
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2025
Verdi: Nabucco - Arena di Verona, 2025
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2025
Attila
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2025
Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
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2025
Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco - Arena di Verona 2025
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2025
Un giorno di regno
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2025
La Traviata
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2025
Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro Regio di Parma
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2025
Otello- Israeli Opera
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2025
The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
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2025
Asmik Grigorian in Kaunas St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral
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Golda Schultz, Rolando Villazón, and Ludovic Tézier @ Neuschwanstein Castle 2025
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Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
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Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata @ Grand Théâtre de Genève
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Concerto per Agrigento - Capitale italiana della Cultura 2025
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2024
The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend
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2024
Rigoletto
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2024
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
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2024
La Forza Del Destino - Gran Teatre del Liceu
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2024
Macbeth: Washington National Opera
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2024
La Traviata - Nationaltheater Mannheim
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2024
Don Carlo
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2024
Hannover Klassik Open Air 2024
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2024
The Metropolitan Opera: La Forza del Destino
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2024
The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco
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2024
Asmik Grigorian @ Salzburg Festival 2024
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2023
Don Carlo
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2023
About Dry Grasses
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2023
Nabucco - Grand Théâtre de Genève
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2023
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
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2023
Maledictis
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2023
Verdi Gala
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2023
Concerto per il 2 agosto 2023
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