Previous posts for October 10th are here: Giuseppe Verdi; Vernon Duke; Evgeny Kissin; Thelonious Monk (2019), Giuseppe Verdi (2020), Willi Apel (2021), and Giuseppe Verdi (2022)
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Giuseppe Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was the most important composer of Italian opera in the mid-nineteenth century.
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The story is almost unrelentingly gloomy. The opera has no moments even approaching levity and the whole thing has an air of death about it right from the start. – “Verdi's 'Simon Boccanegra' From Houston Grand Opera,” NPR.org, October 26, 2007
Simon Boccanegra has got
A stern and intransigent plot;
Don’t expect to have fun
When Boccanegra is done,
For let’s just be honest, it’s not.
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