Free Download Daniel Snowman, "Giuseppe Verdi: pocket GIANTS" English | ISBN: 0752493256 | 2014 | 128 pages | EPUB | 257 KB Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was the Shakespeare of opera, the composer of Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida and Otello. The chorus of Hebrew slaves from Nabucco (1842) is regarded in Italy as virtually an alternative national anthem - and the great tragedian rounded off his career fifty years later with a rousing comedy, Falstaff.