In one of this man's works, the former Emperor, thought to be dead, drags his grandson into his tomb; in that same work, Don Carlos sings a duet that would be reworked into the Lacrimosa of a piece composed by this man for Alessandro Manzoni.
In one of this man's works, the former Emperor, thought to be dead, drags his grandson into his tomb; in that same work, Don Carlos sings a duet that would be reworked into the Lacrimosa of a piece composed by this man for Alessandro Manzoni. In another of his operas, Abigaille seizes the Babylonian crown from Nabucco, who had taken the Israelites captive. Falstaff and Otello were two of his Shakespeare-inspired operas, and he wrote about the jester of the cruel Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, but his most famous is one in which Radamès bids farewell to the world with an Egyptian princess. For 10 points, name this Italian composer of operas like Aïda.
In one of this man's works, the former Emperor, thought to be dead, drags his grandson into his tomb; in that same work, Don Carlos sings a duet that would be reworked into the Lacrimosa of a piece composed by this man for Alessandro Manzoni.
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi