Although soldiers and statesmen played a key role in what unfolded, Giuseppe Verdi’s ... To overcome his grief, Verdi throws himself into a new opera, Nabucco, which will debut in 1842 and ...

Verdi was a fervent supporter of the Risorgimento, the reorganisation of the numerous small Italian states into one country. The theme of resurgent nationalism in his early operas, the frequent ...

Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest musicians in history and a symbol of Italian unification, tried to give up music when he composed Nabuco, an opera that consecrated him as an artist and turned ...