Verdi

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname from Italian.

A census-designated place in Sierra County, California, United States.

A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

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Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi. Charles Rosen

For Mendelssohn, Beethoven was the new point of departure, and a German composer could not afford to ignore him, as Chopin and Verdi were able to do. Charles Rosen

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though. Rufus Wainwright

A catalog for an exhibition in Parma of artifacts relating to Visconti's productions of operas by Verdi, curated by Caterina d'Amico de Carvalho, in Italian. Source: Internet

According to Mascagni, "softly and slowly he replied 'the scene in which King Lear finds himself on the heath scared me'".sfn Verdi began work on Il trovatore after the death of his mother in June 1851. Source: Internet

After around 1850, aria forms in Italian opera began to show more variety – many of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi offer extended narrative arias for leading roles that enable, in their scope, intensification of drama and characterisation. Source: Internet

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