← ALL COMPOSERS
1813 — 1901
Giuseppe Verdi
The Italian composer par excellence, who transformed opera into pure human drama. His characters burn: fathers who lose children, women who die for honour, heroes destroyed by jealousy. Verdi is raw emotion.
01
Cairo, 1871
Aida
Egypt, pyramids, war and two lovers buried alive together
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02
Venice, 1853
La traviata
A courtesan who sacrifices herself for love. Paris, champagne, consumption and broken hearts.
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03
Florence, 1847
Macbeth
Shakespeare set to music — witches, ambition, guilt and a Lady washing invisible blood
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04
Milan, 1842
Nabucco
The Babylonian king who defies God, the Hebrew people in chains, and the chorus that made a nation weep
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05
Milan, 1887
Otello
Jealousy as poison — Iago, the most perfidious villain in musical history
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06
Venice, 1851
Rigoletto
A hunchback jester, a libertine duke, an innocent daughter. The curse is fulfilled.
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07
Rome, 1859
A Masked Ball
Forbidden love, political conspiracy and an assassination at a costume ball
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