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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Known For Sound
Birthday Oct 10, 1813
Died Jan 27, 1901 (87)
Birthplace Busseto, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Popularity 0.3 (history)
Updated Aug 14, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Aug 14, 2025
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Biography

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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Maledictis

Maledictis

2023

Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

2022

Music Score Producer

Macbeth

Macbeth

2018

Original Music Composer

La Traviata

La Traviata

2017

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The Opera House

The Opera House

2017

Music

Verdi: Requiem

Verdi: Requiem

2013

Original Music Composer

Verdi Requiem

Verdi Requiem

2013

Compositor

Verdi: Falstaff

Verdi: Falstaff

2013

Opera

The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera

The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera

2012

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Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata

2012

Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2012

Original Music Composer

I Due Foscari - Verdi

I Due Foscari - Verdi

2012

Compositor

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

2011

Original Music Composer

MacBeth

MacBeth

2011

Original Music Composer

Don Carlo - ROH

Don Carlo - ROH

2008

Original Music Composer

Aida

Aida

2006

Sound

Rigoletto

Rigoletto

2001

Original Music Composer

La Traviata

La Traviata

2001

Original Music Composer

Falstaff

Falstaff

2000

Original Music Composer

8 ½ Women

8 ½ Women

1999

Music

Verdi: Macbeth

Verdi: Macbeth

1987

Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

Rigoletto

1987

Original Music Composer

Nabucco

Nabucco

1981

Music

Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964

Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964

1962

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