Giuseppe Verdi Quotes

You may have the universe if I may have Italy

So you’re a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.

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Mentre Wagner è in Germania, cosa sta succedendo in Italia? C'è Giuseppe Verdi. Noi abbiamo sempre il nostro Gianni Morandi di turno. Wagner che pensa di andare al di là del mondo tonale, e noi Gianni Morandi che scrive: "Me lo prendi papà?" Sempre così. Noi Pausini? Loro Björk.

You’ve saved your money and bought a ticket to Fashion Week in Milan. All the world’s great clothing designers will be showing their startling and beautiful designs. You’ll be one of the first to see them! Or picture yourself in Rome. You’re at a performance of the opera Aïda, written by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. You’re seated amid eighteen-hundred-year-old ruins under a starry sky, listening to magnificent music. You’ve got your snowboard and warm clothing so you can glide down the slopes the world’s greatest skiers took during the 2006 Winter Olympics near Turin. Or perhaps it’s summer, and you’re going to explore the sea caves of Capri, off the coast of Naples. Later, you can take a look at the towering columns at Agrigento, among the temples the ancient Greeks built on the island of Sicily long before Italy existed. In any one of these places, you might be one of the millions of tourists who visit Italy every year. But alongside the tourists are Italians, also appreciative of the wonders of their own country.