Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini, whose works significantly influenced him.
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 did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements. As he became professionally successful he 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).
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La Traviata (2011)
La Traviata by Guiseppe Verdi, from Oper Graz, 2011. Directed by Myriam Hoyer, conductor Tecwyn Evans. Starring Chor des Opernhauses Graz, Marlis Petersen (Violetta Valery), Giuseppe Varano (Alfredo Germont), James Rutherford (Giorgio Germont).
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival presents Juan Diego Florez in Recital (2019)
Accompanied by Vincenzo Scalera, the magnificent tenor Juan Diego Flórez performs G. Rossini's "Addio ai Viennesi" and "Bolero", "Una furtiva lagrima" from G. Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, "Tombe degli avi miei / Fra poco a me ricovero" from G. Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, "O dolore" from G....
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Falstaff (2020)
Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, from Staatsoper Hamburg, 2020. Directed by Henning Kasten, conductor Axel Kober. Starring Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, Ambrogio Maestri, Falstaff; Markus Brück, Ford; Oleksiy Palchykov, Fenton; Jürgen Sacher, Dr. Cajus; Daniel Kluge, Bardolfo; Tigran Martirossian...
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Macbeth (2007)
Macbeth by G. Verdi from Macerata Opera Festival, performed at Sferisterio di Macerata, 2007. Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, conductor Daniele Callegari. Starring Giuseppe Altomare (Macbeth), Olha Zhuravel (Lady Macbeth), Pavel Kudinov (Banco), Rubens Pelizzari (Macduff), Marco Voleri (Malcolm), L...
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Macbeth (2009)
Macbeth by G. Verdi from Opéra national de Paris, performed at Opéra Bastille, 2009. Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, conductor Teodor Currentzis. Starring Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Violeta Urmana (Lady Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco), Stefano Secco (Macduff), Alfredo Nigro (Malcolm), Yu...
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Le Trouvère - Sung in French (Il trovatore) (2018)
Le Trouvère - Sung in French (Il trovatore) by G. Verdi from Teatro Comunale di Bologna, performed at Teatro Farnese, 2018. Directed by Robert Wilson, conductor Roberto Abbado. Starring Giuseppe Gipali (Manrique), Franco Vassallo (Le Comte de Luna), Marco Spotti (Fernand), Luca Casalin (Ruiz, Un ...
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La forza del destino (2006)
La forza del destino by G. Verdi from Teatro Comunale di Modena, performed at Teatro Comunale, Modena, 2006. Directed by Pier Francesco Maestrini, conductor Lukas Karytinos. Starring Susanna Branchini (Leonora), Renzo Zulian (Don Alvaro), Marco di Felice (Don Carlo), Paolo Battaglia (Padre Guardi...
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Falstaff (2009)
Falstaff by G. Verdi from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2009. Directed by Richard Jones, conductor Vladimir Jurowski. Starring Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Tassis Christoyannis (Ford), Dina Kuznetsova (Mrs. Ford), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mi...
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Great Arias - Gegam Grigorian - La forza del destino (1999)
Great Arias Gegam Griogorian - La forza del destino: "La vita è inferno all'infelice!" from Mariinsky Theatre, 1999. Conductor Valery Gergiev.
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Giovanna d'Arco (2013)
Giovanna d'Arco by G.Verdi, from Festival della Valle d'Itria, 2013. Directed by Fabio Ceresac, Conductor Riccardo Frizza, starring Jessica Pratt, Julian Kim, Jean-françois Borras, Emanuele Cordaro and Roberto Cervellera. Performed in Italian and subtitles in German, English, French, Italian and ...
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Il trovatore (2006)
Il trovatore by Verdi from Bregenz Festival, performed at Bregenz Festival, 2006. Directed by Robert Carsen, conductor Thomas Rösner. Starring Carl Tanner (Manrico), Iano Tamar (Leonora), Željko Lučić (Il Conte di Luna) and Marianne Cornetti (Azucena). Subtitled in German, Spanish, French, Italia...
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Great Arias - Paoletta Marrocu-Macbeth - Vieni! t’affretta! and La luce...(2001)
Great Arias Paoletta Marrocu - Macbeth: "Vieni! t'affretta" and "La luce langue", by G. Verdi, from Opernhaus Zürich, 2001. Conductor Fritz Weller-Möst, starring Paoletta Marrocu (Lady Macbeth).
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Great Arias - Thomas Hampson - Macbeth - "Mi si affaccia un pugnal?....." (2001)
Great Arias Thomas Hampson - Macbeth: "Mi si affaccia un pugnal?" and "Pièta, rispetto, amore", by G. Verdi, from Opernhaus Zürich, 2001. Conductor Fritz Weller-Möst, starring Thomas Hampson (Macbeth)
