Let us return to the old: that will be progress.
Torniamo all'antico: sara un progresso.
Musicians
Giuseppe Verdi
Born near Busseto, Italy, in 1813, Giuseppe Verdi dominated Italian opera in the nineteenth century. Rigoletto, La traviata, and Aida marked the peaks of his middle period, while Otello and Falstaff, composed in his seventies, astonished the world as late masterpieces. His early chorus 'Va, pensiero' from Nabucco became a symbol of the Italian unification movement, and Verdi himself was revered as a national hero embodying those ideals. His operas remain among the most popular in the repertoire today.
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