The music is not divided so clearly into recitative and aria like it had been for two centuries.
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They are full of exciting drama in which the characters are very skilfully described by the music. These operas have many tunes which became famous. Three more famous operas were written at this time: Rigoletto in 1851 and Il trovatore ( The Troubadour) and La traviata, both in 1853. He continued to travel a lot but did not let his wife come with him, leaving her behind in Busseto where she was not happy because many people there did not like her. She was a great support to him until her death in 1897 although Verdi was not an easy husband to live with. She had lived with another man and had three children so she felt that she was not good enough for Verdi. Giuseppina Strepponi was the soprano who sang the part of Abigaille in Nabucco. Italy eventually became one country in 1861. People chanted it in the streets with the words suitably changed. The song Va pensiero from his opera Nabucco was about the Hebrew slaves who were captive in Babylon. The words of these choruses were often about fighting for freedom, and it was often thought that the songs were encouraging people to revolt. Verdi often wrote music for large choruses in his operas. In the 1850s there was a lot of political unrest in the country. He was becoming a success.įor centuries Italy had been a collection of several countries, each with their own ruler. This opera, based on Shakespeare’s famous play, is still one of the best-loved of all operas. In 1847 he had another big success with Macbeth. His opera Ernani (1844) was one of the best from this period. He not only had to write the music but organize all the people to perform it. He started to work very hard, composing two operas a year. This was a great success and made him world-famous.
Verdi managed to overcome his unhappiness in 1842 when he produced his opera Nabucco. There was also tragedy in his personal life at this time: his two children and his wife all died. When his next opera was produced it was not a success: the audience did not like it and they hissed and booed. It is not one of his greatest operas, but it helped him to become well-known and he was asked to write three more operas for La Scala. In 1839 he composed an opera: Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, which was performed in La Scala, the world-famous opera house in Milan. He had some private lessons and learned a lot about opera as well as about literature and politics. Barezzi sent him to Milan so that he could study, but Verdi had not been taught the piano properly and he did not get a place in the music conservatory. Later Verdi married a daughter of a friend. A man called Antonio Barezzi knew many important people and he helped Verdi a lot. At the age of 9 he often played the organ for church services in the village when the organist was away.Ī few years later he composed music for the amateur orchestra in Busseto. He was given a small harpsichord which he kept all his life. The young boy must have been very talented. His father was an innkeeper who had a small farm. The small village where Verdi was born lies in the valley of the Po River in the north of Italy.
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