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Born: October 10, 1813 in Le Roncole, Parma, Italy
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Died: January 27, 1901 in Milan, Italy
Genre: Classical

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Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two men who dominated and occupied opposite poles in the development of opera in Europe from the 1840s to the 1890s, were both born in the same year. Wagner was seen as the man of the future, Verdi as a reactionary, yet Verdi also advanced the form of opera into a more seamless kind of continuous drama, rather than a s... Continue Bio >>

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