* Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane, Verdi: A Biography, London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 ISBN 0-19-313204-4

** Sir Colin Davis ( conductor ); Carlos Alvarez, Bülent Bezdüz, Marina Domashenko, Jane Henschel, Ana Ibarra, Maria Josè Moreno & Michele Pertusi ; James Mallinson ( producer ) ( London Symphony Chorus ; London Symphony Orchestra ) for Verdi: Falstaff

The Chorus of the Hebrews ( the English title for Va, pensiero ) has another appearance in Verdi folklore.

While it has not proved to be as immensely popular as the Verdi works that immediately preceded it, namely Aida and Otello, Falstaff has long been an admired favorite with critics and musicians because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodic invention.

The day after, Verdi wrote to his friend Muzio in what has now become perhaps his most famous letter: " La traviata last night a failure.

The municipal theatre called Giuseppe Verdi has one of the best lyrical programming of Italy and the city of Salerno, although it's near Naples and its province, is the first city in Italy, for its range of population, for the cycle of rubbish and recycle.

Associated with the rise of the baritone in the 19th century, Martin was well known for his fondness for falsetto singing, and the designation ' Baryton Martin ' has been used ( Faure, 1886 ) to separate his voice from the ' Verdi Baritone ', which carried the chest register further into the upper range.

The Requiem Mass is notable for the large number of musical compositions that it has inspired, including settings by Mozart, Verdi, Dvořák, Fauré and Duruflé.

During the last years, Flimm has produced works by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Gounod, Stravinsky, Franz Schreker and others at La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Berlin State Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Hamburg State Opera.

Perhaps the most versatile and internationally famous post-war German opera composer is Hans Werner Henze, who has produced a series of works which mix Bergian influences with those of Italian composers such as Verdi.

She has sung a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.

Its season runs from mid-December to mid-April and the company mounts some four productions per year, but since 2004 it has mounted an annual " Festival Verdi " each October with the aim of presenting every Verdi opera by the bi-centennial year of the composer's birth.

Pordenone has been the primary host to the Giornate del cinema muto, a festival of silent film, since 1981, excepting an eight-year lapse after the host theater, Il Cinema Verdi, was torn down.

Since 2001, there has been a permanent exhibition of objects and documents related to Verdi and his relationship to the Barezzi family.

It is the only early Verdi opera, apart from Ernani and Luisa Miller, which has received regular performances at the Met in recent times, having been presented in 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Described by Time Magazine as " a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna ", Dr. Fiorella Terenzi has studied opera and composition at Conservatory G. Verdi, Corsi Popolari Serali and taught mathematics and physics at Liceo Scientifico, Milan.

She has also performed the Verdi Requiem with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as well as with Helmuth Rilling at the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn.

In recent times, the opera has appeared more frequently in the repertories of the Washington National Opera ( 2007 ) and the San Francisco Opera ( Nov / Dec 2007 ) and many other opera houses worldwide, but almost all productions stage the revised version with the exception of both the original and the revised versions which were presented in 2003 as part of the Sarasota Opera's " Verdi Cycle " of all the composer's operas in their different versions.

The Sarasota Opera presented Oberto in 2001 ; the ABAO in Bilbao, Spain, presented it in performances in January 2007, from which a DVD has been released ; and the Teatro Regio di Parma gave it in October 2007 as part of their on-going " Festival Verdi ".

The Sarasota Opera presented Luisa Miller in 1999 ; the Teatro Regio di Parma gave it in October 2007 as part of their on-going " Festival Verdi " ; and the ABAO in Bilbao, Spain, has yet to schedule it.

Mitchell has written nine produced plays, including Another Country, which won the SWET ( now Olivier ) Award for best play of the year ( 1981 ), and After Aida ( 1985 ), a play-with-music about composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Verdi and Wagner also composed for the ophicleide as did Sir Arthur Sullivan in his Overture Di Ballo ( which, like Wagner's Rienzi, also has an additional part for serpent ).

As First Citizen and a sincere music lover, he has taken up the position of President of Trieste ’ s Theatre Giuseppe Verdi.

Other companies have similar aims: the Teatro Regio di Parma presented it in 2008 as part of their " Festival Verdi ", while another, the ABAO in Bilbao, Spain, has yet to schedule it.

Aida (), sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette.

The following year this concept, worked into a scenario by Camille du Locle, was proposed to Giuseppe Verdi, who accepted it as a subject for Aida.

Initially, Verdi had enlisted Francesco Maria Piave to prepare the libretto, after Verdi's own scenario.

The pretence was that he was delivering a prescription from Dr. Verdi.

Curiously, this scene is a close parallel to one that Verdi was writing at the same time, the scene between Amonasro and Aida.

Verdi rival Errico Petrella's most successful opera, Jone ( 1858 ), was based upon Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii, and was performed all over the world until the First World War.

He was the first to write an oratorio fully on the subject of the Book of Revelation ( as opposed to a Last Judgement in a Requiem like that of Verdi ).

Puccini was " the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi ".

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901 ) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera.

Verdi was born the son of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the First French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.

" So it happened that for the civil and temporal world Verdi was born a Frenchman.

Also in Busseto, Verdi was given his first lessons in composition.

Verdi went to Milan when he was twenty to continue his studies.

Both died in infancy while Verdi was working on his first opera and, shortly afterwards, Margherita died of encephalitis on 18 June 1840, aged only 26.

Verdi adored his wife and children, and he was devastated by their untimely deaths.

A large number of operas – 14 in all – followed in the decade after 1843, a period which Verdi was to describe as his " galley years ".

Their cohabitation before marriage was regarded as scandalous in some of the places they lived, but Verdi and Giuseppina married on 29 August 1859 at Collonges-sous-Salève, near Geneva.

In 1869, Verdi was asked to compose a section for a requiem mass in memory of Gioachino Rossini and proposed that this requiem should be a collection of sections composed by other Italian contemporaries of Rossini.

The soprano Teresa Stolz ( who later had a strong professional – and, perhaps, romantic – relationship with Verdi ) was at that time engaged to be married to Mariani, but she left him not long after.

Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

Teresa Stolz was associated with both Aida and the Requiem ( as well as a number of other Verdi roles ).

It was widely believed that she and Verdi had an affair after she left Angelo Mariani, and a Florence newspaper criticised them for this in five strongly worded articles.

This was the last of four sacred works that Verdi composed, Quattro Pezzi Sacri, which are often performed together or separately.