Giuseppe Verdi

Known For: Sound
Born: October 10, 1813
Place of Birth: Busseto, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died: January 27, 1901

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas. Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him, becoming one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history. In his early operas Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi however did not…

Filmography

The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello

2027 · Writer

The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Macbeth

2026 · Writer

53 Sundays

2026 · Music

Concerto di Capodanno La Fenice 2026

2026 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth (Teatro Regio di Torino, 2026)

2026 · Original Music Composer

Attila

2025 · Original Music Composer

Chelsea Zurflüh & Jonathan Tetelman @ Château de Neuschwanstein 2025

2025 · Original Music Composer

Un giorno di regno

2025 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2025 · Music

Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro Regio di Parma

2025 · Music

Otello- Israeli Opera

2025 · Writer, Sound

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

2025 · Writer

Concerto per Agrigento - Capitale italiana della Cultura 2025

2025 · Original Music Composer

Asmik Grigorian in Kaunas St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral

2025 · Original Music Composer

Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann

2025 · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata @ Grand Théâtre de Genève

2025 · Original Music Composer

Golda Schultz, Rolando Villazón, and Ludovic Tézier @ Neuschwanstein Castle 2025

2025 · Original Music Composer

The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend

2024 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2024 · Writer

Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino

2024 · Music

La Forza Del Destino - Gran Teatre del Liceu

2024 · Music

Macbeth: Washington National Opera

2024 · Writer

La Traviata - Nationaltheater Mannheim

2024 · Music

Don Carlo

2024 · Writer

Hannover Klassik Open Air 2024

2024 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: La Forza del Destino

2024 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

2024 · Music, Writer

Asmik Grigorian @ Salzburg Festival 2024

2024 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlo

2023 · Music

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023

2023 · Music

About Dry Grasses

2023 · Music

Nabucco - Grand Théâtre de Genève

2023 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

2023 · Music

Maledictis

2023 · Music

Mantoue en musiques Avec Lea Desandre

2023 · Original Music Composer

Verdi Gala

2023 · Original Music Composer

Concerto per il 2 agosto 2023

2023 · Original Music Composer

New Year's Eve Concert 2022 With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

2022 · Original Music Composer

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

2022 · Music

Don Carlo

2022 · Writer

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2022 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos

2022 · Music

Concert in solidarity with Ukraine - Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

2022 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

2022 · Music Score Producer

New Year's Concert 2022 from the Teatro La Fenice

2022 · Music

100 anni di Musica - Renata Tebaldi

2022 · Original Music Composer

Falstaff

2021 · Opera, Music

Macbeth

2021 · Music

Rigoletto

2021 · Original Music Composer

Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11

2021 · Music

Il Trovatore

2021 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2021 · Music

L'Opera in Ambasciata a Roma e Parigi

2021 · Original Music Composer

In My Room

2020 · Music

Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria

2020 · Music

The Red Scarf

2020 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlos [Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège]

2020 · Compositor

Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore

2020 · Music

Anna Netrebko und Rolando Villazón singen "La Traviata"

Anna Netrebko und Rolando Villazón singen "La Traviata"

2020 · Original Music Composer

Stiffelio

2020 · Music

Falstaff (Hamburg State Opera)

2020 · Opera

Aida: Grand Théâtre de Genève

2019 · Music

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2019 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Nabucco

2019 · Opera

Verdi: Messa da Requiem

2019 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Falstaff - Teatro Real

2019 · Original Music Composer, Writer

Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino

2019 · Music

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2019 · Original Music Composer

Royal Opera House: La Traviata

2019 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Macbeth

2019 · Original Music Composer

I Vespri Siciliani

2019 · Original Music Composer

Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2019

2019 · Original Music Composer

The 350th Anniversary Inaugural Gala

2018 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2018 · Original Music Composer

Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata

2018 · Original Music Composer

Attila

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Otello

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Don Carlo

2018 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

2018 · Original Music Composer

Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc

2018 · Compositor

Royal Opera House: Macbeth

2018 · Music

The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller

2018 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2018 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2018 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)

2018 · Original Music Composer

The ROH Live: Rigoletto

2017 · Music

Rigoletto

2017 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2017 · Original Music Composer

Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos

2017 · Original Music Composer

The Opera House

2017 · Music

Il club dei 27

2017 · Music

La Traviata

2017 · Musical

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2017 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Nabucco

2017 · Original Music Composer

Otello - Teatro Real Madrid (Palumbo)

2016 · Music Arranger

Verdi: La Traviata

2016 · Original Music Composer

The ROH Live: Nabucco

2016 · Music

Violettina

2016 · Music

Don Carlo

2016 · Writer

Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari

2016 · Compositor

Macbeth

2016 · Music

Aida

2015 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Otello

2015 · Original Music Composer

The Met — Il Trovatore

2015 · Original Music Composer

Luisa Miller - San Francisco Opera

2015 · Opera

Verdi Nabucco

2015 · Compositors

Verdi: La traviata

2015 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2015 · Original Music Composer

Nabucco

2015 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2015 · Original Music Composer

Aida

2015 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2015 · Original Music Composer

This is Opera

2015 · Original Music Composer

Best Of Verdi Opera Choruses

2014 · Compositor

The Metropolitan Opera - Verdi: Macbeth

2014 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore

2014 · Original Music Composer

Verdi La Forza del Destino

2014 · Compositors

Verdi: Otello

2014 · Music

Verdi: Falstaff

2013 · Opera

Aida - Arena di Verona

2013 · Original Music Composer

Les Vêpres siciliennes

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Don Carlo

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Don Carlo

2013 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)

2013 · Opera

Messiah

2013 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Aida - Arena di Verona 2013

Verdi: Aida - Arena di Verona 2013

2013 · Music

Verdi Requiem

2013 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

2013 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

2012 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera

2012 · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata

2012 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Otello

2012 · Compositors

Verdi: Don Carlo

2012 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Alzira

2012 · Original Music Composer

San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto

2012 · Original Music Composer

Falstaff (Zurich)

2012 · Opera

Verdi: Stiffelio

2012 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2012 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: La Traviata

2012 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2012 · Writer

Verdi: I masnadieri

2012 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Aida

2012 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Ernani

2012 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano

2012 · Original Music Composer

Aida

2012 · Original Music Composer

I Due Foscari - Verdi

2012 · Compositor

La traviata

2011 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Falstaff

2011 · Opera

Messa da Requiem (2011)

2011 · Compositor, Original Music Composer

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

2011 · Original Music Composer

MacBeth

2011 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

2011 · Original Music Composer

Nabucco

2011 · Original Music Composer

Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]

2011 · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi : La forza del destino

2011 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo

2010 · Original Music Composer

Attila

2010 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Attila

2010 · Original Music Composer

I vespri siciliani

2010 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Il Trovatore

2010 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2010 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto a Mantova

2010 · Music

Verdi Attila

2010 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Aida (Bregenz Festival)

2010 · Original Music Composer

Simon Boccanegra - Teatro La Scala Milano

2010 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2010 · Original Music Composer

Un giorno di regno

2010 · Original Music Composer

In Concert at The Met

2010 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Aida

2009 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Nabucco

2009 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: I due Foscari

2009 · Original Music Composer

Royal Opera House: La Traviata

2009 · Original Music Composer

Falstaff

2009 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata

2009 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Il corsaro

2008 · Original Music Composer

Giovanna d'Arco

2008 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Rigoletto (Teatro Regio di Parma)

2008 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof Zürich

La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof Zürich

2008 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Otello

2008 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2008 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto - Semperoper Dresden

2008 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlo - ROH

2008 · Original Music Composer

The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth

2008 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Otello

2008 · Compositor

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera

2008 · Original Music Composer

La traviata in Paris

2007 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Luisa Miller

2007 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Oberto

2007 · Original Music Composer

La forza del destino

La forza del destino

2007 · Original Music Composer

Nabucco

2007 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: La Traviata

2007 · Self - Composer, Original Music Composer

Oberto

2007 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Aida

2006 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2006 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2006 · Original Music Composer

Aida

2006 · Sound

Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem

2006 · Music

Otello

2006 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2006 · Original Music Composer

Un Ballo in Maschera

2005 · Original Music Composer, Opera

La traviata

2005 · Self - Composer, Original Music Composer

Verdi: Ernani

2005 · Original Music Composer

Verdi La Traviata

2005 · Music

Don Carlos

2005 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2004 · Writer, Music

Nabucco

2004 · Original Music Composer

Nabucco

2004 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2004 · Writer

Aida

2003 · Original Music Composer

Triumphal March and 30 Days of Their Own

Triumphal March and 30 Days of Their Own

2002 · Music

Simon Boccanegra

2002 · Music

Falstaff (La Scala)

2002 · Opera

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2002 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore

2002 · Self - Composer, Original Music Composer

A Verdi Gala from Berlin

2002 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2002 · Original Music Composer

Otello

2001 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2001 · Original Music Composer

Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala

Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala

2001 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

2001 · Original Music Composer

The Cupboard

2001 · Music

Nabucco

2001 · Original Music Composer

Gran Gala di Verdi

2001 · Writer, Original Music Composer

La Traviata

2001 · Original Music Composer

Otello

2001 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

2001 · Original Music Composer

Jérusalem

2000 · Original Music Composer

Un Ballo in Maschera - Gran Teatre del Liceu

2000 · Music

Falstaff

2000 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Nabucco

2000 · Music

Classics On A Summer's Evening

1999 · Music

8 ½ Women

1999 · Music

Po całym ciele

Po całym ciele

1999 · Music

San Diego OperaTalk! with Nic Reveles

1998 · Music

Verdi: La Forza del Destino

1997 · Music

Macbeth

1997 · Original Music Composer

La Forza del Destino - The Met

1996 · Compositor

Rigoletto

1996 · Music

Verdi: Don Carlos

1996 · Original Music Composer

Otello

1995 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

1995 · Music

Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

1995 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

1994 · Original Music Composer

I Lombardi - The Met

1993 · Music

Stiffelio - The Met

1993 · Music

Verdi Stiffelio

1993 · Compositors

Pavarotti in Central Park

1993 · Compositor

La Traviata

1993 · Compositors

Falstaff

1993 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlo

1992 · Original Music Composer

Otello

1992 · Original Music Composer

Attila

1991 · Original Music Composer

Un Ballo in Maschera

1991 · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera

1990 · Compositors

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

1990 · Compositor

I vespri Siciliani

1990 · Original Music Composer

Aida

1989 · Original Music Composer

12 Directors for 12 Cities

1989 · Music

Rigoletto

1989 · Compositors

The Prisoner of If Castle

1989 · Music

Otello

1989 · Music

An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti

1988 · Compositor

Il Trovatore

1988 · Music

Camillo Castiglioni oder die Moral der Haifische

Camillo Castiglioni oder die Moral der Haifische

1988 · Music

The Two Foscari

1988 · Original Music Composer

Bains de Minuit

1987 · Music

La Traviata

1987 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Macbeth

1987 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

1987 · Original Music Composer

Verdi Macbeth Chailly

1987 · Original Music Composer

Otello

1986 · Music

Nabucco

1986 · Original Music Composer

Aida

1985 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlo

1985 · Music

A Strange Love Affair

1985 · Music

Il Trovatore

1985 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

1985 · Original Music Composer

Aida

1985 · Original Music Composer

Mathilde

1985 · Music

Simon Boccanegra

Simon Boccanegra

1984 · Original Music Composer

Tosca's Kiss

1984 · Musician

La Forza del Destino

1984 · Original Music Composer

Ernani

1983 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlo

1983 · Original Music Composer

La traviata

1982 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Requiem

1982 · Original Music Composer

Verdi Ernani

1982 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Rigoletto

1982 · Original Music Composer

Aida - San Francisco Opera

1981 · Original Music Composer

Verdi: Rigoletto

1981 · Original Music Composer

Nabucco

1981 · Music

Aida

1981 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata - The Met

1981 · Original Music Composer

Don Carlo

1980 · Original Music Composer

Un Ballo in Maschera

1980 · Original Music Composer

Macbeth

1979 · Music

Falstaff

1979 · Music

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

1978 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore - Verdi

1978 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

1977 · Original Music Composer

Nabucco

1977 · Original Music Composer

La Traviata

1976 · Music

Falstaff

1975 · Sound

Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera

1975 · Original Music Composer

Grisù

1975 · Music

Nora Helmer

1974 · Music

Aida (1973 Tokyo)

Aida (1973 Tokyo)

1973 · Original Music Composer

Otello

1973 · Music

La Traviata

1973 · Original Music Composer

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

1972 · Music

Who's Afraid of Opera?

1972 · Music

La traviata

1967 · Music

Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964

1962 · Compositor, Writer, Music

Verdi Otello

1962 · Compositor

Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)

1958 · Writer, Original Music Composer

Otello

1958 · Original Music Composer

Il Trovatore

1957 · Original Music Composer

Rigoletto

1955 · Music

Giuseppe Verdi

1953 · Original Music Composer

Aida

1953 · Music

La forza del destino

1950 · Original Music Composer

Il trovatore

1949 · Music

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 5: Verdi: Aida

1949 · Original Music Composer

Toscanini Volume Three The Television Concerts (1948-52)

1948 · Compositor

The Lost One

1947 · Original Music Composer

The King's Jester

1941 · Opera

Honeysuckle

1938 · Original Music Composer

Die Weltoper Nr. 1

Die Weltoper Nr. 1

1934 · Music

Aida

— · Music

La Traviata

— · Music

Concert for Europe 2025

— · Original Music Composer

Luisa Miller - Wiener Staatsoper

— · Original Music Composer

Giuseppe Verdi · Virelixia