WEB FLAC (tracks) – 450 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps – 249 Mb | 01:48:49Classical, Opera | Label: Deutsche GrammophonGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian opera composer.

He 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 Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him.

By his 30s, he had become 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 seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region.

He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).

His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his ‘middle period’: Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, and the 2013 bicentenary of his birth was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.

Tracklist:01. Ileana Cotrubas – Verdi: La Traviata – Libiamo ne’lieti calici (feat. Plácido Domingo, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Bavarian State Orchestra & Carlos Kleiber) (03:02)02. Plácido Domingo – Verdi: Rigoletto – La donna è mobile (feat. Wiener Philharmoniker & Carlo Maria Giulini) (03:10)03. Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin – Verdi: Nabucco – Va pensiero, sull’ali dorate (feat. Giuseppe Sinopoli & Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin) (04:58)04. Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano – Verdi: Aida – Grand March (feat. Claudio Abbado) (01:42)05. Berliner Philharmoniker – Verdi: Messa da Requiem – 2. Dies irae (feat. Carlo Maria Giulini & Ernst Senff Chor) (02:48)06. Anna Netrebko – Verdi: La Traviata – Sempre libera (feat. Rolando Villazón, Wiener Philharmoniker & Carlo Rizzi) (03:56)07. Plácido Domingo – Verdi: Aida – Se quel guerrier io fossi!.Celeste Aida (feat. Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano & Claudio Abbado) (04:34)08. Anna Netrebko – Verdi: La Traviata – E strano! – Ah, fors’è lui (feat. Wiener Philharmoniker & Carlo Rizzi) (04:34)09. Brigitte Fassbaender – Verdi: Il Trovatore – Stride la vampa! (feat. Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Carlo Maria Giulini) (02:48)10. Grace Bumbry – Verdi: Don Carlo – O don fatale (feat. Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Janos Kulka) (04:22)11. Plácido Domingo – Verdi: Falstaff – Dal labbro il canto estasiato vola (feat. Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre & Valery Gergiev) (03:40)12. Plácido Domingo – Verdi: Otello – Esultate! (feat. Choeurs de l’Opera Bastille, Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille & Myung Whun Chung) (02:17)13. Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano – Verdi: Rigoletto – Preludio (feat. Rafael Kubelik) (02:51)14. Katia Ricciarelli – Verdi: Un ballo in maschera – Ecco l’orrido campo (feat. Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano & Claudio Abbado) (06:49)15. Rosalind Plowright – Verdi: Il Trovatore – D’amor sull’ali rosee (feat. Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Carlo Maria Giulini) (04:09)16. Berliner Philharmoniker – Verdi: La forza del destino – Overture (Sinfonia) (feat. Claudio Abbado) (07:21)17. Ileana Cotrubas – Verdi: La Traviata – Tenesta la promessa…Attendo, né a me giungon mai…Addio del passato (feat. Bavarian State Orchestra & Carlos Kleiber) (04:03)18. Rolando Villazón – Verdi: Il Corsaro – Eccomi prigionero! (feat. Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino & Gianandrea Noseda) (03:46)19. Anna Netrebko – Verdi: Macbeth- Version 1865 For The Paris Opéra – Una macchia è qui tuttora (feat. Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino & Gianandrea Noseda) (10:00)20. Anna Netrebko – Verdi: La Traviata – Ah! Dite alla giovine (feat. Wiener Philharmoniker & Carlo Rizzi) (04:58)21. Plácido Domingo – Verdi: Il Trovatore – Di quella pira (feat. Walter Gullino, Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Carlo Maria Giulini) (02:18)22. Stefania Malagu – Verdi: Macbeth – Una macchia è qui tuttora (feat. Shirley Verrett, Carlo Zardo, Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano & Claudio Abbado) (07:53)23. Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano – Verdi: Nabucco / Act 1 – Gli arredi festivi (feat. Claudio Abbado & Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano) (05:13)24. Berliner Philharmoniker – Verdi: Aida – Overture (feat. Claudio Abbado) (04:23)25. Hagen Quartett – Verdi: String Quartet In E Minor – 3. Prestissimo (03:02)