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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas.

Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him, becoming one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history.

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 however did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful 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).

His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, and the bicentenary of his birth in 2013 was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.

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Films (344)

The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello

2027 · Writer

The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth

2026 · Music

La Traviata 2026

2026 · Original Music Composer

Simon Boccanegra – Dutch National Opera and Ballet

2026 · Original Music Composer

53 dimanches

2026 · Music

Concerto di Capodanno La Fenice 2026

2026 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth (Teatro Regio di Torino, 2026)

2026 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Nabucco - Arena di Verona, 2025

2025 · Music

Attila

2025 · Original Music Composer

Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025

2025 · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco - Arena di Verona 2025

2025 · Music

Un giorno di regno

2025 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2025 · Music

Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro Regio di Parma

2025 · Music

Otello- Israeli Opera

2025 · Writer, Sound

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

2025 · Writer

Concerto per Agrigento - Capitale italiana della Cultura 2025

2025 · Original Music Composer

Asmik Grigorian in Kaunas St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral

2025 · Original Music Composer

Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann

2025 · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata @ Grand Théâtre de Genève

2025 · Original Music Composer

Golda Schultz, Rolando Villazón, and Ludovic Tézier @ Neuschwanstein Castle 2025

2025 · Original Music Composer

Les trois ténors, naissance d'une légende

2024 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2024 · Writer

Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino

2024 · Music

La Forza Del Destino - Gran Teatre del Liceu

2024 · Music

Macbeth: Washington National Opera

2024 · Writer

La Traviata - Nationaltheater Mannheim

2024 · Music

Don Carlo

2024 · Writer

Hannover Klassik Open Air 2024

2024 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: La Forza del Destino

2024 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

2024 · Music, Writer

Asmik Grigorian @ Salzburg Festival 2024

2024 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlo

2023 · Music

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023

2023 · Music

Les Herbes sèches

2023 · Music

Nabucco - Grand Théâtre de Genève

2023 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

2023 · Music

Maledictis

2023 · Music

Mantoue en musiques Avec Lea Desandre

2023 · Original Music Composer

Verdi Gala

2023 · Original Music Composer

Concerto per il 2 agosto 2023

2023 · Original Music Composer

New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

2022 · Original Music Composer

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

2022 · Music

Don Carlo

2022 · Writer

Aida

2022 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2022 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos

2022 · Music

Concert in solidarity with Ukraine - Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

2022 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: La forza del destino

2022 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

2022 · Music Score Producer

New Year's Concert 2022 from the Teatro La Fenice

2022 · Music

100 anni di Musica - Renata Tebaldi

2022 · Original Music Composer

Muti conducts Verdi’s Requiem

2022 · Original Music Composer

Falstaff

2021 · Opera, Music

La Traviata - Wiener Staatsoper

2021 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2021 · Music

Rigoletto

2021 · Original Music Composer

Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11

2021 · Music

La Traviata

2021 · Music

Il Trovatore

2021 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2021 · Music

L'Opera in Ambasciata a Roma e Parigi

2021 · Original Music Composer

In My Room

2020 · Music

Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria

2020 · Music

The Red Scarf

2020 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlos [Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège]

2020 · Compositor

Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore

2020 · Music

Anna Netrebko und Rolando Villazón singen "La Traviata"

2020 · Original Music Composer

Stiffelio

2020 · Music

Falstaff (Hamburg State Opera)

2020 · Opera

Aida: Grand Théâtre de Genève

2019 · Music

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2019 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Nabucco

2019 · Opera

Verdi: I Masnadieri - Teatro alla Scala

2019 · Writer, Compositor

Verdi: Messa da Requiem

2019 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Falstaff - Teatro Real

2019 · Original Music Composer, Writer

Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino

2019 · Music

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2019 · Original Music Composer

Royal Opera House: La Traviata

2019 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Macbeth

2019 · Original Music Composer

I Vespri Siciliani

2019 · Original Music Composer

Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2019

2019 · Original Music Composer

The 350th Anniversary Inaugural Gala

2018 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2018 · Original Music Composer

Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Attila - Teatro alla Scala

2018 · Original Music Composer, Writer

Verdi: Otello

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Don Carlo

2018 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro alla Scala

2018 · Compositor, Writer

Royal Opera House: Macbeth

2018 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2018 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Rigoletto - Teatro Massimo di Palermo

2018 · Original Music Composer

The ROH Live: Rigoletto

2017 · Music

Rigoletto

2017 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2017 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlos

2017 · Original Music Composer

The Opera House

2017 · Music

Il club dei 27

2017 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2017 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Nabucco

2017 · Original Music Composer

Otello - Teatro Real Madrid (Palumbo)

2016 · Music Arranger, Music

Verdi: La Traviata

2016 · Original Music Composer

The ROH Live: Nabucco

2016 · Music

Violettina

2016 · Music

Don Carlo

2016 · Writer

La Traviata

2016 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto - Opéra National de Paris

2016 · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi - I due Foscari

2016 · Compositor

Macbeth

2016 · Music

Aida

2015 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Otello

2015 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore [The Metropolitan Opera]

2015 · Original Music Composer

Luisa Miller - San Francisco Opera

2015 · Opera

Verdi Nabucco

2015 · Compositors

Verdi: La traviata

2015 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2015 · Original Music Composer

Nabucco

2015 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2015 · Original Music Composer

Aida

2015 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2015 · Original Music Composer

Best Of Verdi Opera Choruses

2014 · Compositor

The Metropolitan Opera - Verdi: Macbeth

2014 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore

2014 · Original Music Composer

Verdi La Forza del Destino

2014 · Compositors

Verdi: Otello

2014 · Music

Verdi: Falstaff

2013 · Opera

Teatro alla Scala: La Traviata

2013 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore - Staatsoper Berlin

2013 · Original Music Composer

Aida - Arena di Verona

2013 · Original Music Composer

Les Vêpres siciliennes

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Don Carlo

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Don Carlo - Royal Theater Turin

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)

2013 · Opera

Messiah

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Aida - Arena di Verona 2013

2013 · Music

Verdi Requiem

2013 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

2013 · Original Music Composer

Un ballo in maschera

2013 · Compositor