11811 Giuseppe Verdi Video DVD

Giuseppe Verdi. Drawing from both the bliss of loving marriages and wonderful children, and the advertisity of losing those he loved to death, Guiseppe Verdi created some of the most memorable and poignant operas know. This stunning film which blends photos, rare recordings, archival footage and re-enactments creates the varied and wonderful world that influenced him. From his early success, with Nabucco written at the age of eighty to his last triumph, Falstaff, that concluded fifty-five years of a prolific career. Excerpts from these operas as well, as his well known operas Rigoletto, Macbeth, La Traviata, Aida, and Othello make this a musically divine film. Much of the footage is drawn from National Institute of Verdi Studies and La Scala Opera Theatre. (53 minutes)

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