Giuseppe Verdi was born in obscurity in a tiny Italian village in 1813. When he died in 1901, hundreds of thousands of people turned out to pay their respects t

Based on more than 30-years of research and drawing on both public and private archives, this biography of the great Italian composer is unprecedented in its un

Along with learning about various opera jobs, opera production, what takes place at rehearsals, and opera house history, inquisitive kids will gain a fuller und

Relates the life of a boldly innovative composer whose operas still fill theatres today.