Pre-eminent composer of opera from Italy, his operas remained popular even today. Born 10 October 1813 in Le Roncole near Busseto, First French Empire (today Italy) and died 27 January 1901 in Milan, Italy.
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Wrote his earlier operas in a style now known as "bel canto" or "beautiful singing"; beginning with Otello, wrote in a more dramatic style.
Was idolized by conductor Arturo Toscanini.
Italian composer. His world recognition is due mainly to his operas. Among these, the best known are: "Rigoletto", "Il Trovatore", "La Traviata", "La Forza del Destino", "Aida", "Otello" and "Falstaff". "Otello" and "Falstaff" are considered by most critics to be the finest operas ever adapted from Shakespeare. Verdi wrote "Falstaff" when he was eighty, in 1893. The tenor aria "La donna e mobile", from "Rigoletto", is one of the most famous arias ever written for an opera, and is familiar even to people who never listen to opera.
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
I adore art. . . when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. .
