Scandalous Overtures
Season 1
Ep 9. Giuseppe Verdi: The Conspiracy to Get Him Back to Work
- January 20, 2015
- 6 min
Professor Robert Greenberg tells the story of how the greatest Italian composer of the 19th century was forced out of retirement. Nobody was happy about Giuseppe Verdi's retirement except him, and, in 1879, his wife Giuseppina hatched a plot with intent to get him back to work.