Verdi: Attila

Starring: Cheryl Studer, Samuel Ramey Director: Christopher Swann Dvd Release: 14th October, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, NTSC, Region 0 Encoding

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was one of the great composers of Italian opera. A composer of the romantic music, his work was already very popular during his lifetime & remains so today. Born in the Duchy of Parma in Le Roncole, at that time under Napoleon s occupation, he moved to Busseto in 1824 where he started his musical studies with Ferdinando Provesi. Verdi is also known as the swan from Busseto. He composed an overture for Gioacchino Rossini s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, then he moved to Milan, but he was not accepted at the conservatory, so he had private studies with Vincenzo Lavigna. Marrying his patrons daughter, Verdi became the municipal music director of Busseto after completing his studies. In 1838, the leading European musical editor Giovanni Ricordi bought his copyrights & this business would last for the rest of his life, passing through the generations of Ricordis family, with Tito & Giulio Ricordi being considered as part of his family.

The American opera singer Samuel Edward Ramey is considered by many the finest bass-baritone singer of his generation. He is greatly admired for his range & versatility, having both the bel canto technique to sing Handel, Mozart, Rossini, as well as the power to handle the dramatic roles of Verdi & Wagner. Ramey was born in Colby, Kansas. He studied music in high school & college. After further study in Central City & Santa Fe, he went to New York where he had his first breakthrough at the New York City Opera. As his repertoire expanded, he spent more & more time in the theatres of Europe, notably in Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Vienna, the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne, Pesaro & Salzburg. In January, 1984, Ramey made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Handels Rinaldo. He has since become fixture at the La Scala, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the New York City Opera & the San Francisco Opera. Posters Of Mozart

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