Leonora’s father is accidentally shot dead by her lover, Don Alvaro. La Forze Del Destino contains some of Verdi’s most brilliant choral writing and several beautiful and intimate arias. Verdis three following works, Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853), and La Traviata (1853), brought him international fame and remain among the most popular. Listen to the best of Verdi on Apple Music and Spotify. Although he was a profoundly serious man, his final opera, Falstaff, was a brilliant comedy. Father and daughter relationships are a recurrent theme in his work, as are the subjects of injustice, oppression, and religious hypocrisy. Verdis middle period is marked by the second and third of his three major operas: in 1853 Il Trovatore was produced in Rome and La traviata in Venice. “The Drinking Song” from La Traviata, “The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” from Nabucco, and “La Donna è Mobile” from Rigoletto are as well known in popular culture as they are in the world of opera. More than 100 years after his death, the works of Verdi form a major part of today’s opera repertoire. He was the most eminent composer in Italian opera after the eras of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini.
Giuseppe Verdi was the greatest of all Italian opera composers.
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