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Verdi

Verdi

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An Italian musician who wrote famous operas like Rigoletto and La Traviata
  • proper noun
  • /ˈvɛrdi/
: Verdi
  • A successor, Ismail Pasha, built the Cairo Opera House, which opened with Verdi's Rigoletto in 1869 to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal.
  • operas by Verdi

So he says he's talking about music, and he says I like Verdi and Puccini.

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Examples

  • The conductor announced that the orchestra will play a selection of Verdi's operas this weekend.

  • "Anyone performing a major Verdi role has to have an interpretation.

    Blog text (22)

  • Had Giuseppe Verdi actually come over to America?

    Fiction book (1993)

  • We're playing Verdi tonight.

    Hoosiers (1986)

  • One of his dream roles is King Philip in Verdi's "Don Carlos."

    Blog text (8)

  • Oh, you're going to love Verdi's Macbeth.

    Hoodlum (1997)

  • Many of Verdi's operas carry appeals for the unification of Italy.

    Academic text (1998)

  • More than a century and a half after composition, the operas of Giuseppe Verdi dominate the operatic canon.

    Blog text (5)

  • Tonight, we will enjoy a performance of Verdi's famous opera, La Traviata.

  • Many consider Verdi to be one of the greatest composers of Italian opera.

Synonyms

Giuseppe Verdi
vsVerdi
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An Italian composer famous for operas like La Traviata and Aida

is the same in meaning but uses only the shorter surname form

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Verdi is an Italian family name from the word verde, which means 'green'. A helpful way to remember Verdi the composer is to imagine green fields in Italy, which reminds you he was an Italian writer of famous operas.