With Cesare Civetta, the music director of the Beethoven Festival Orchestra in New York City and the author of "The Real Toscanini: Musicians Reveal the Maestro."
In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, this multimedia presentation highlights his life and work, including little known facts about his humanitarianism and philanthropy. It features excerpts from Verdi's operas Nabucco, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Macbeth, Don Carlo, Otello and La Forza del Destino. The patriotic elements in Verdi's operas played a significant role in the unification of Italy, a struggle for which Verdi fought, climaxing in the 1867 premiere of his operatic adaptation of Schiller's play, Don Carlos.
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