Word: verdis
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...revise the calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...artificial and corrupt house of cards which will fall some day in a few hours"). A patient, humane man, with historical perspective, he believed that his nation had strayed into its most tragic hour, but that in good time the countrymen of Dante and Galileo, Michelangelo and Mazzini, Verdi and Ferrero, would come out all right. "They are grand, they are grand!" he said as the little people of Italy turned from the Blackshirts and their alliance with the Germans...
...Beethoven 2) Tschaikovsky 3) Mozart 4) Wagner 5) Schubert 6) Bach 7) Richard Strauss 8) Gershwin 9) Johann Strauss 10) Liszt 11) Handel 12) Verdi...
...Impresario Salmaggi gives his public its money's worth. His 28-piece orchestra drones out Verdi's melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily. His triumphal scenes contain not only singers and ballet dancers but live donkeys and horses, sometimes elephants and camels. In a fit of showmanship a few years ago he signed up Jack Johnson, Negro heavyweight emeritus, chained him to an Egyptian chariot, plastered Manhattan with billboards advertising "Jack Johnson...
...make his point even more emphatic, Conductor Toscanini changed Verdi's Italia, patria mia (Italy, my country) to Italia tradita (Italy betrayed...