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Giuseppe Verdi
Born: 10th October 1813, Le Roncole
Died: 27th January 1901, Milan
Nationality: Italian
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the modern province of Parma (at the time a department of the French Empire), to a family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron, Antonio Barezzi. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti, whose works significantly influenced him.
In his early operas, Verdi demonstrated sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also served briefly as an elected politician.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi
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Germán Enrique Alcántara on Simon Boccanegra
7th May 2025
The rising Argentinian baritone discusses his recent recording debut on Opera Rara (which saw him stepping in to sing Verdi's troubled Doge at very short notice), his two transformative years on the Jette Parker Artists Programme at Covent Garden, and why it 'takes a village' to raise an opera-singer...
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Verdi's original version of Simon Boccanegra from Sir Mark Elder and Opera Rara
21st Mar 2025
The 1857 incarnation of Verdi's political thriller is brought vividly to life, with outstanding playing from The Hallé and a terrific, committed young cast headed by Argentinian baritone Germán Enrique Alcántara (making his recording-debut in the title-role).
Popular Genres: Verdi
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Popular Works: Verdi
- Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore) (60)
- Aida (123)
- Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) (72)
- Ave Maria (from Otello) (54)
- Caro nome (from Rigoletto) (72)
- Celeste Aida (from Aida) (99)
- Di Provenza il mar (from La Traviata) (47)
- Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) (70)
- Don Carlo (57)
- È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui...Sempre libera (from La Traviata) (63)
- Falstaff (77)
- Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida) (45)
- I vespri siciliani Overture (52)
- Il Trovatore (117)
- La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) (209)
- La forza del destino (62)
- La forza del destino Overture (113)
- La Traviata (164)
- La traviata: Prelude to Act 1 (56)
- Laudi alla Vergine Maria (from Quattro Pezzi Sacri) (45)
- Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) (69)
- Macbeth (70)
- Nabucco (43)
- Nabucco Overture (51)
- Otello (77)
- Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) (83)
- Quando le sere al placido (from Luisa Miller) (59)
- Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) (72)
- Requiem (179)
- Rigoletto (121)
- Rigoletto: Act 3 (52)
- Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) (65)
- Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) (63)
- Simon Boccanegra (47)
- String Quartet in E minor (56)
- Tacea la notte (from Il Trovatore) (46)
- Te Deum (from Quattro Pezzi Sacri) (46)
- Tu che le vanità (from Don Carlo) (49)
- Un ballo in maschera (78)
- Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) (102)
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