Giuseppe Verdi

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Giuseppe Verdi came from a village near Busseto and made his breakthrough in 1842 at La Scala in Milan with Nabucco, whose chorus of the slaves, Va, pensiero, later became a symbol of Italian unification. He always sought out the strongest dramatic situation and wrote melodies that stick in the mind at once. In Rigoletto (1851) the Duke sings the carefree La donna è mobile while the audience already knows how badly it will end. His operas are still at the core of the repertoire.

Listening

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  Rigoletto: La donna è mobile (Luciano Pavarotti, Richard Bonynge) · Giuseppe Verdi, 1851
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  Nabucco: Va, pensiero (Wiener Staatsoper, Lamberto Gardelli) · Giuseppe Verdi, 1842
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  Messa da Requiem: Dies irae (Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado) · Giuseppe Verdi, 1874
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  Rigoletto: La donna è mobile (Luciano Pavarotti) · Giuseppe Verdi, 1851

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• Bel canto and Italian opera GenreGiuseppe Verdi made opera more dramatic; La donna è mobile from Rigoletto was being sung in the street the morning after the premiere.

See also

• Bel canto and Italian opera
• Gioachino Rossini