Giuseppe Verdi
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the modern province of Parma, to a family of moderate means, receiving a
Verdi, c. 1872
Verdi's childhood home at Le Roncole
Antonio Barezzi, Verdi's patron and later father-in-law
Margherita Barezzi, Verdi's first wife
Giuseppina Strepponi
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Clelia Maria Giuseppa Strepponi was a nineteenth-century Italian operatic soprano of great renown and the second wife of composer Giuseppe Verdi.
Portrait by an unknown artist, c. 1845
Painting by Karoly Gyurkovich (c. 1860s)
Giuseppina Strepponi (c. 1865)
Baritone Giorgio Ronconi