Giuseppe Verdi – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Portrait by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (Source: Wikimedia)

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Verdi, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco
October 10, 1813 in Le Roncole
†

January 27, 1901 in Mailand
Komponist

Iconography

Portrait by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (Source: Wikimedia)

The baptismal certificate of Giuseppe Verdi (Source: Wikimedia)

Verdi's childhood home at Le Roncole (Source: Wikimedia)

Antonio Barezzi, Verdi's patron and later father-in-law (Source: Wikimedia)

Margherita Barezzi, Verdi's first wife (Source: Wikimedia)

Temistocle Solera, Verdi's first librettist (Source: Wikimedia)

Francesco Maria Piave whose work with Verdi included Rigoletto and La traviata (Source: Wikimedia)

Giuseppina Strepponi (c. 1845) (Source: Wikimedia)

Emanuele Muzio, Verdi's pupil and assistant (Source: Wikimedia)

Salvadore Cammarano, librettist of Alzira, La battaglia di Legnano, and Luisa Miller (Source: Wikimedia)

Villa Verdi at Sant'Agata, as it looked between 1859 and 1865 (Source: Wikimedia)

Giuseppina Strepponi, c. 1850s (Source: Wikimedia)

Verdi confronting the Naples censor when preparing Un ballo in maschera (caricature by Delfico) (Source: Wikimedia)

Painting "Viva Verdi" slogans (Source: Wikimedia)

Verdi in Russia, 1861–1862 (Source: Wikimedia)

Teresa Stolz as Aida in the 1872 Parma production (Source: Wikimedia)

Arrigo Boito and Verdi at Sant'Agata in 1893 (Source: Wikimedia)

Group portrait at Sant'Agata in 1900 with various family and friends. His companion Teresa Stolz is standing at the left, Giulio Ricordi is standing second from the right, with his wife seated below him. Verdi is in the middle, and his adopted daughter, Maria Carrara Verdi, is seated at the far left. (Source: Wikimedia)

Verdi's grave at the Casa di Riposo, Milan (Source: Wikimedia)

Giuseppe Verdi in Vanity Fair (1879) (Source: Wikimedia)

Macbeth meets the witches (Act I, scene 1) (Source: Wikimedia)

Stage set by Giuseppe Bertoja for the premiere of Rigoletto (Act 1, Scene 2) (Source: Wikimedia)

Les vêpres siciliennes: poster for the premiere (1855) (Source: Wikimedia)

Verdi conducting the Paris Opera premiere of Aida in 1880 (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi (1886) by Giovanni Boldini (Source: Wikimedia)

Luigi Secchi's 1913 statue of Verdi in Busseto (Source: Wikimedia)

The final scene of the opera Risorgimento! (2011) by Lorenzo Ferrero. Verdi, one of the characters in the opera, stands just left of centre. (Source: Wikimedia)

Bildnis des G. Verdi, Hüssener, Auguste - 1850/1877 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A0010112 (Version 6.1.0 of November 30, 2024)
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