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Happy Birthday in the style of Wagner, Verdi and Debussy

What if Wagner had written Happy Birthday – or Verdi, Debussy or Tchaikovsky?

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Piotr Beczala recording on antique equipment

Watch: modern opera stars recorded their voice onto wax cylinders

Montserrat Caballé

Legendary soprano Montserrat Caballé dies aged 85

Verdi chord

People are getting really creeped out by this one single chord in ‘Rigoletto’

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Woman arrested for playing Verdi loudly for 16 years

Woman arrested for blasting Verdi from her house 16 hours a day… for 16 years

piano squeak 2

This guy turned a piano squeak into something quite beautiful

Greatest pieces for tenor

The best pieces for tenors

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Casa Verdi

There's a retirement home for musicians – and we would like to book our places already

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operas for musical fans

10 operas you need in your life if you’re a die-hard musicals fan

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Singing painter John Pierce

This painter singing Verdi and Puccini will make you smile and also cry

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Pop fan listening to classical music

Millennial listens to Beethoven for the VERY FIRST time (and it blows his mind)

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Verdi John Suchet

The mysterious life of Giuseppe Verdi: John Suchet uncovers the truth about the great composer
Spookiest pieces square

These are the scariest pieces of music ever written

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Aida musical cancelled

Bristol University theatre cancels Aida over ‘racial diversity’

Traviata Rome Kardashian Kanye

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West just made an opera the celebrity event of the year

old lady soprano sings verdi

Fausta Truffa, the old lady who sings Verdi with more joy than singers half her age

Verdi asset

10 reasons why we absolutely love that operatic genius Giuseppe Verdi

Bridgewater Hall

Pay what you like and bring in your beer – legendary UK orchestra tears up the concert-going rulebook

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