The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)

9.5/10 • 110 min • Music Drama History

Overview

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.

Cast

Fosco Giachetti

Giuseppe Verdi

Gaby Morlay

Giuseppina Strepponi

Germana Paolieri

Margherita Barezzi

Camillo Pilotto

Antonio Barezzi

Cesco Baseggio

Papà Verdi

Maria Jacobini

Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi

Febo Mari

Marelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano

Carlo Duse

Temistocle Solera

Enrico Glori

Il maestro Mariani

Achille Majeroni

Il maestro Basili

Carlo Tamberlani

Demalde

Augusto Di Giovanni

Antonio Ghislanzoni

Gustavo Serena

Salvatore Cammarano

Guido Celano

Francesco Maria Piave

Lamberto Picasso

Gaetano Donizzetti

Pierre Brasseur

Alexandre Dumas figlio

Gabriel Gabrio

Honoré De Balzac

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