Due Giuseppi: Celebrating the Life of Garibaldi via the Music of Verdi
dal 16/10/2010 al 16/10/2010
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16/10/2010
Due Giuseppi: Celebrating the Life of Garibaldi via the Music of Verdi
Garibaldi Meucci Museum, New York
An audio visual presentation by Lou Barrella
On Sunday, October 17 at 1 p.m., the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host an audio visual presentation by Lou Barrella of 'Due Giuseppi: Celebrating the Life of Garibaldi via the Music of Verdi.' While General Giuseppe Garibaldi was the best known - and best loved - military figure in the Risorgimento movement in Italy, the contributions of composer Giuseppe Verdi to Italy's unification were as important, if a bit more subtle. In 19th-century Italy, opera was not just an entertainment, it was an arena of political and cultural life for men and women of all classes, and for Verdi, musical and political revolution went hand in hand. In his third opera, Nabucco, written in 1842, he used the biblical story of the Hebrews' captivity in Babylon to raise the freedom cry for Italy. Italian patriots adopted 'Va Pensiero' from Nabucco as their anthem.