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In his famous aria "La donna è mobile", the Duke of Mantua is probablyreferring more to his own unpredictability than the supposed ficklenessof women....
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As in Verdi’s other operas to librettos by Friedrich Schiller, "Luisa Miller" centres on the conflict between individual freedom and political power. Luisa Miller,...
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Giovanna d’Arco , Verdi’s first opera, adapted from a play by Friedrich Schiller, was written after Nabucco and ...
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According to Giuseppe Verdi, it was the opening lyrics of the legendary slave chorus – Va pensiero, sull’ ali dorate (Fly,...
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Verdi’s final opera is a brilliant riposte to Gioacchino Rossini’ssuspicions that his colleague was too serious and melancholy to evercreate a decent...