Giuseppe Verdi: Uniting Italy With Music

Born alongside Italy’s press for nationhood, Verdi’s operas provided Italians with the music that expressed the passion for ...
The New Yorker

Honoring Verdi on Seventy-second Street

The statue of Giuseppe Verdi, set high above a patch of daffodils, draws scant attention from people hurrying to the subway at Seventy-second Street and Broadway, or even from people lounging on the ...
The Guardian

Verdi: where to start with his music

This week we turn to the Shakespeare of opera, a composer whose glorious gift for melodies and compassionate gaze celebrates life in all its variety Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is one of the greatest ...
The New York Times

GIUSEPPE VERDI IS DEAD; He Passed Away at Milan Early This Morning.

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers.
The New York Times

A Verdi Masterwork, Lost in Italian Translation, Returns to the Stage

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Royal Opera will revive “Les Vêpres Siciliennes,” a French work experts say has long been overshadowed by an Italian version Verdi did not produce ...
The Art Newspaper

Italy seizes Giuseppe Verdi's villa and plans to turn it into a museum

Italy’s culture ministry has notified the heirs of Giuseppe Verdi that it will seize the composer’s villa near the town of Piacenza, paving the way for plans to transform the decaying property into a ...
Classic FM

Italy’s opera houses hope to save Verdi’s historic home – by singing together

The famed house of Giuseppe Verdi, Villa Verdi, is up for public auction this year and could be taken away from the public. Sant’agata Villanova Sull’arda, a beautiful farmhouse in the Italian ...