Although soldiers and statesmen played a key role in what unfolded, Giuseppe Verdi’s music provided the soundtrack to the desire for independence. Through his many works, Verdi reflected ...

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English ... teaching and going to star-studded premieres. His music was soon being performed all over the world and he had become a bit of a celebrity.

In his role as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, Victor DeRenzi has conducted just about every note of music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. By the completion of the company’s 28-year Verdi ...

Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest musicians in history and a symbol of Italian unification, tried to give up music when he composed Nabuco, an opera that consecrated him as an artist and turned ...

Verdi persevered in his ambitions by taking private lessons. After his studies with one Vincenzo Lavigna, from whom he acquired a thorough mastery of counter point, fugue and canon, Verdi applied for ...

Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi is certainly one of the world’s experts on the works of composer Giuseppe ... closer to how Verdi found expression in the music.” ...

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English ... teaching and going to star-studded premieres. His music was soon being performed all over the world and he had become a bit of a celebrity.