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Giuseppe Verdi Monument
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Verdi Square, New York City |
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Area |
2 acres (0.81 ha) |
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Built |
1906 |
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Architect |
Pasquale Civiletti |
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NRHP reference No. |
90002223 |
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Added to NRHP |
October 4, 1990 |
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The Giuseppe Verdi Monument is a sculpture in honor of composer Giuseppe Verdi located in Verdi Square Park (between West 72nd and West 73rd streets, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway) in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, by Pasquale Civiletti (1858–1952), depicts Verdi flanked by four of his most popular characters: Falstaff (on the west side of the statue of Verdi), Leonora of La forza del destino (south side), Aida (north side), and Otello (east side).
The monument was dedicated on Columbus Day, October 12, 1906, by the Verdi Monument Committee chaired by Carlo Barsotti (1850–1927), an Italian-American who hoped to inspire young Italian Americans. He was the founding editor of the Il Progresso Italo-Americano Italian-American newspaper, and used its pages to raise funds for this and several other memorials including the Columbus Circle monument, an 1888 monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Square Park, a monument to Giovanni da Verrazzano (1909) and the 1921 monument to Dante Alighieri in Dante Square.
A permanent maintenance endowment for the monument has been established by Bertolli USA. The monument is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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- Category:National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Portal:National Register of Historic Places
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List of compositions
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Operas |
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Opera excerpts |
- "Anvil Chorus"
- "Bella figlia dell'amore"
- "Celeste Aida"
- "Di quella pira"
- "La donna è mobile"
- "Libiamo ne' lieti calici"
- "Un dì, felice, eterea"
- "Va, pensiero"
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Opera discographies |
- Aida
- Don Carlos
- Falstaff
- La forza del destino
- Macbeth
- Otello
- Rigoletto
- Il trovatore
- La traviata
- Un ballo in maschera
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Other compositions |
- Suona la tromba (1848)
- Inno delle nazioni (1862)
- String Quartet in E minor (1873)
- Messa da Requiem (1874)

- Quattro pezzi sacri (1889–1897)
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Recognitions |
- Memorials to Giuseppe Verdi
- Theatres named after Verdi (Brindisi - Busseto - Florence - Trieste)
- Milan Conservatory
- Giuseppe Verdi Monument
- Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
- Verdi (crater)
- Verdi Inlet
- Verdi Range
- 3975 Verdi
- Verdi, California
- Verdi, Kansas
- Verdi, Nevada
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Cultural depictions |
- Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi (1886)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1938 film)
- Verdi, the King of Melody (1953 film)
- The Life of Verdi (1982 miniseries)
- After Aida (1985 play)
- Risorgimento! (2011 opera)
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Film adaptations |
- Otello (1906)
- Aida (1953)
- La Traviata (1983)
- Otello (1986)
- Macbeth (1987)
- Aida (1987)
- Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story (2005)
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Related articles |
- Casa di Riposo per Musicisti
- Verdi Transcriptions (Finnissy)
- Villa Verdi
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