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Videos

Listen to  A selection of Verdi’s operatic overtures and arias

-La forza del destino — overture
–Attila — ‘O dolore! Ed io vivea’
–I vespri siciliani — ‘À toi que j’ai chérie’
–La traviata — Prelude (Act 1)
–Simon Boccanegra — ‘O inferno! … Sento avvampar nell’anima’
–Aida — Triumphal March (Act 2)
-Luisa Miller — ‘O fede negar potessi … Quando le sere al placido’
–Rigoletto – ‘La donna è mobile’

Watch the following selections of La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi

Listen to The Ride of the Valkyries, by Richard Wagner, probably the most famous and instantly identifiable of Wagner’s works.

Reading Material (click below):

1. Giuseppe Verdi
2.  About “La Traviata”
3. Wagner