Although soldiers and statesmen played a key role in what unfolded, Giuseppe Verdi’s music provided the soundtrack to the desire for independence. Through his many works, Verdi reflected ...

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If theater-goers are left to wonder whether Iago hates Otello because he is a racist or because he was skipped for promotion, opera patrons are rewarded with his aria.

Verdi’s Nabucco, and especially its chorus Va’, Pensiero, has been long associated with Risorgimento and is still today a ...

Verdi persevered in his ambitions by taking private lessons. After his studies with one Vincenzo Lavigna, from whom he acquired a thorough mastery of counter point, fugue and canon, Verdi applied for ...

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English!) was an Italian composer who dominated the Italian opera scene in the late 19th Century. Verdi's first opera – 'Oberto', written in 1839 – was a big ...

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No other composer of Italian opera has managed to match the popularity of Verdi. He told epic stories in a way that immediately appealed to the public with memorable, hummable tunes and lots of drama.

A REHEARSAL this week of Verdi’s Otello at the Israeli Opera. (photo credit: YOSSI ZWECKER) Otello, the Italian operatic adaptation by composer Giuseppe Verdi and librettist Arrigo Boito of the ...