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Born in 1813 in Roncole, Verdi became town music master in Busseto and married Margherita Barezzi, his patron’s daughter (their two children died in infancy). His wife died during the composition of Un giorno di regno (which was a total failure) and it was only with the performances of Nabucco in 1842 that his international reputation was sealed. His operatic models were Rossini, Mercadante and Donizetti. His expressive range was enormous reflected in Rigoletto, La traviata and Il trovatore. He married the soprano Giuseppina Strepponi in 1859 with whom he had been living for several years. He was to write Les Vêpres Siciliennes (1855) and Don Carlos (1867) for the Paris Opera and also for Paris a revised version of his 1847 version of Macbeth (1865). For St Petersburgh he wrote La forza del destino in 1862. Politically active in his middle years he was persuaded by Cavour to stand for the national parliament, was elected and eventually became a senator. The great works, The Requiem, Aida, Otello and Falstaff crowned a staggering musical achievement. When Verdi died in 1901, 28,000 people lined the streets of Milan for his funeral.

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The Italian government has a new plan to buy the home of composer Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. They will be partnering with opera houses throughout Italy to present concerts featuring music by Verdi, with all proceeds going towards purchasing the composer’s home.

Verdi built the house in 1848, and his parents lived there before he moved in with his second wife, Giuseppina Strepponi, in 1851. He lived in the home until he died in 1901.

The house is currently owned by descendants of Maria Filomena Verdi, the composer’s younger cousin. the Carrara Verdi family.

Family matters

For over 20 years, the Carrara Verdi family could not agree on selling the house, living in it, or turning it into a museum.

After a messy legal battle, Italy’s supreme court ruled that it must be sold, and the proceeds divided among them.

Until October, Villa Verdi was lived in by Angiolo Carrara Verdi and partly used as a museum, with visitors able to tour rooms, including one containing the bed and other furniture items from the hotel room in Milan where the composer died.

Until this past October, the family allowed visitors to tour the house, showing Verdi’s bed and other personal effects.

In a nutshell

• The house will go up for auction for a projected €30.
• Because of the historical significance,  the Italian government will be given the option of matching the offers to turn the house into a museum.
• The house contains many of his personal items, including a top hat, piano and scores.

This move to preserve Verdi’s home is a significant step in recognizing the importance of the composer’s life and work and his impact on Italy and the world. It will also serve as a valuable resource for future generations to learn about Verdi’s life and classical music history in Italy.

Home in Milan, Italy

The Casa di Riposo per Musicisti (literally 'rest home for musicians') is a home for retired opera singers and musicians in Milan, northern Italy, founded by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (whose statue is in the piazza outside the building) in 1896. The building was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Italian architect, Camillo Boito. Both Verdi and his wife, Giuseppina Strepponi are buried there. A documentary film about life in the Casa di Riposo, Il Bacio di Tosca (Tosca's Kiss in the US), was made in 1984 by the Swiss director Daniel Schmid.

History

In the last years of his life, Verdi wrote to his friend Giulio Monteverde:

Of all my works, that which pleases me the most is the Casa that I had built in Milan to shelter elderly singers who have not been favoured by fortune, or who when they were young did not have the virtue of saving their money. Poor and dear companions of my life!"

In 1888, Verdi had already built, equipped and managed a hospital in Villanova sull'Arda, a town bordering the fields of his estate. The following year, he turned to his next philanthropic project, a home for retired opera singers and musicians who had fallen on hard times. In 1889, he wrote to Giulio Ricordi that he had acquired a large piece of empty land in Milan outside the Porta Garibaldi on which he planned to build his Casa di Riposo. He then announced his plans publicly in an 1891 interview in the Gazetta musicale di Milano. Construction did not begin until 1896, but in the intervening years Verdi and wife, Giuseppina Strepponi, met frequently with the architect, Camillo Boito to plan the project. (Camillo Boito was the brother of Verdi's friend and librettist, Arrigo Boito.) He also sought out information on how other hospices for the elderly were run. In 1895, Verdi made provisions in his will to fund the Casa after his death, bequeathing the future royalties from