History Trivia / GiuseppeVerdi

* OldShame: Most of the operas that predate ''Rigoletto''. Verdi himself considered ''Alzira'' very awful.

* CreatorBreakdown: Verdi had his right at the start of his career. He was only in his twenties when his small son (Icilio) and daughter (Virginia), and then his first wife (Margherita Barezzi), all died within three years of each other. ([[BreakTheCutie Wow.]]) He was in the process of writing a comic opera, ''Un giorno di regno'', at the time of Margherita's death, and unsurprisingly, it wasn't a success. Bereavement compounded by failure upset him so that he decided to give up composing, but the manager of La Scala opera house persuaded him to just have a look at this ''libretto'' he had that needed music. Verdi glanced at it and found himself writing a bit of music. He did a bit more each day and ended up with ''Theatre/{{Nabucco}}'', his first major success.

* CreatorBreakdown: Verdi had his right at the beginning of his career. He was only in his twenties when his small son (Icilio) and daughter (Virginia), and then his first wife (Margherita Barezzi), all died within three years of each other. ([[BreakTheCutie Wow.]]) He was in the process of writing a comic opera, ''Un giorno di regno'', at the time of Margherita's death, and unsurprisingly, it wasn't a success. Bereavement compounded by failure upset him so that he decided to give up composing, but the manager of La Scala opera house persuaded him to just have a look at this ''libretto'' he had that needed music. Verdi glanced at it and found himself writing a bit of music. He did a bit more each day and ended up with ''Theatre/{{Nabucco}}'', his first major success.

* BannedInChina[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: Even with its locale changed to Boston, ''Un Ballo in Maschera'' was never performed in Sweden until the 1920s. When it was performed there, the Swedish derided it as historically inaccurate.

* BannedInChina[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: Even with its locale changed to Boston, ''Un Ballo in Maschera'' was never performed in Sweden until the 1920's. When it was performed there, the Swedish derided it as historically inaccurate.
* CreatorBreakdown: Verdi had his right at the beginning of his career. He was only in his twenties when his small son (Icilio) and daughter (Virginia), and then his first wife (Margherita Barezzi), all died within three years of each other. ([[BreakTheCutie Wooooow.]]) He was in the process of writing a comic opera, ''Un giorno di regno'', at the time of Margherita's death, and not surprisingly, it wasn't a success. Bereavement compounded by failure upset him so that he decided to give up composing, but the manager of La Scala opera house persuaded him to just have a look at this ''libretto'' he had that needed music. Verdi glanced at it and found himself writing a bit of music. He did a bit more each day and ended up with ''Theatre/{{Nabucco}}'', his first major success.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The censors gave Verdi a hell of a time with many of his operas Most obvious with ''Gustave III'' (about the assassination of a king!), which after several rewrite-or-elses, and ultimately (when tempers on both sides had cooled) a compromise with the censors, became ''Un Ballo in Maschera''.

* BannedInChina / AmericansHateTingle: Even with its locale changed to Boston, ''Un Ballo in Maschera'' was never performed in Sweden until the 1920's. When it was performed there, the Swedish derided it as historically inaccurate.