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Article: Viva Verdi! 100 years later: From 'Aida' to 'Otello,' composer Giuseppe Verdi's music still inspires.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 19, 2001
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When asked why the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) should be celebrated 100 years after his death, British critic and scholar Andrew Porter pauses for a moment, then quotes the Italian poet Gabriele d'Annunzio on Verdi: "He wept and loved for all of us."
Anyone who cares for opera, and many who don't, find Verdi's music of life-changing importance. A proud nationalist at a time when Italy was divided into different states governed by France or Austria, Verdi wrote noble music that summed up his compatriots' aspirations. The chorus "Va, Pensiero," from the biblical opera "Nabucco," transcended its stage subject of Jewish slaves languishing in Babylonia, to ...
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