The music is filled with allusions to Verdi, to Indonesian gamelan and to medieval plainsong.
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But in Verdi's day, fiery romances at the opera often didn't turn out so well.
Verdi, the German retail union, immediately objected to the cutback in a very public way.
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His plays, like Verdi's profoundest operas, blend history and national myth, statecraft and love.
"I was honest about the work we do--that it's strong stuff, " says Verdi, 44.
In 1851, the first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" was given in Venice.
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Yet he ungrudgingly recognises that it is entirely fitting that Verdi should be celebrated from an international centre.
But Elzy was preparing the role of Verdi's Ethiopian princess Aida, when in 1943, she had to have surgery.
He has sung twice at the Met, most recently last fall as Cassio in Verdi's "Otello" with Renee Fleming.
The strike had involved about 5, 000 members of the Verdi trade union who had demanded a 9.8% pay rise.
Time was when the festival's glittering opening night almost invariably meant staple fare by, say, Mozart, Verdi or Richard Strauss.
And yet these were the singers who drove operatic history at least up to the time of Verdi and Wagner.
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This summer he will sing the role of Alfredo in Verdi's "La Traviata" for his debut in Santa Fe, N.
Giuseppe Verdi, he insists, may have been a great opera composer but he was neither a great patriot nor a nationalist.
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If contemporary opera is to begin to thrive, it needs first of all the full theatres which were Verdi's criterion for success.
But, in the setting, it was hard to listen to Verdi, the composer of Italy's Risorgimento, without thinking of English and Scottish politics.
" There will be new-to-the-Met productions of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin, " Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" and Verdi's "Falstaff' that already have debuted in Europe.
You can hear him sing Verdi at our website, npr.org, where you can also hear Placido Domingo and Joan Sutherland talk more about Pavarotti's voice.
Overall, Mayer's transfer of Verdi's first great middle-period opera from 16th-century Mantua to a 1960 hotel and casino on the Strip resulted in straightforward storytelling.
"I Lombardi, " Verdi's fourth opera, is set during the First Crusade.
And if Verdi had lived, say, in the Baroque era, when operas nearly always had happy endings, Violetta might have done just as well for herself.
Damrau's triumph, coming on the heels of her splendid Gilda in Verdi's "Rigoletto" last month, solidifies her position as one of the Met's most important stars.
Schiller, like Verdi, was a romantic patriot with liberal ideals.
"If you look at our ads you can almost put a comma at the end and say 'or else you're a fool if you don't choose this, ' " Verdi says.
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Invited back the following year to perform the role of the heroine Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata, " she met Ms. Clayton, who was playing Violetta's best friend, Flora, in the production.
Schiller (and doctored history) are also the basis of Verdi's "Don Carlos, " but Verdi and his librettists took a much deeper look at the intersection of love, power and politics than Donizetti did.
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