Giuseppe Verdi

1813–1901 · Busseto, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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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2026
The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth
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La Traviata 2026
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Simon Boccanegra – Dutch National Opera and Ballet
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53 Sundays
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Concerto di Capodanno La Fenice 2026
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Macbeth (Teatro Regio di Torino, 2026)
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2025
Attila
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Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025
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Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco - Arena di Verona 2025
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Un giorno di regno
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La Traviata
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Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro Regio di Parma
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Otello- Israeli Opera
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Concerto per Agrigento - Capitale italiana della Cultura 2025
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Asmik Grigorian in Kaunas St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral
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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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Golda Schultz, Rolando Villazón, and Ludovic Tézier @ Neuschwanstein Castle 2025
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2024
The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend
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Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
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La Forza Del Destino - Gran Teatre del Liceu
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La Traviata - Nationaltheater Mannheim
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Hannover Klassik Open Air 2024
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Forza del Destino
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The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco
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Asmik Grigorian @ Salzburg Festival 2024
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2023
Don Carlo
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Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023
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About Dry Grasses
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Nabucco - Grand Théâtre de Genève
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The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
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Maledictis
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Mantoue en musiques Avec Lea Desandre
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Verdi Gala
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Concerto per il 2 agosto 2023
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2022
New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo
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Aida
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos
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Concert in solidarity with Ukraine - Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin
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The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
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New Year's Concert 2022 from the Teatro La Fenice
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100 anni di Musica - Renata Tebaldi
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Muti conducts Verdi’s Requiem
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2021
Falstaff
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La Traviata - Wiener Staatsoper
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Macbeth
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Rigoletto
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Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11
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La Traviata
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Il Trovatore
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La Traviata
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L'Opera in Ambasciata a Roma e Parigi
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2020
In My Room
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Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria
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The Red Scarf
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Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore
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