Civic Risorgimento Museum Bologna

A symbolic document regarding the relationship between Verdi and the Italian Risorgimento can be found on display in the Civic Risorgimento Museum of Bologna. This is a poster dated 1860 billing the performance of the opera " I Lombardi" in Bologna to finance the Expedition of the Thousand.

Verdi followed military and political developments of the period closely, and his music carried the patriotic ideals everywhere becoming, in a sense, the "sound track" of the Risorgimento.

The Museum Library holds a number of print portraits of the Maestro, while an interesting collection of period newspapers takes us back to the golden age of opera when every première was a major event, and the works of Verdi became an integrating part of a cultural heritage shared by all social classes.

Museo Civico del Risorgimento
Piazza Carducci 5 - 40125 Bologna
E-Mail: museorisorgimento@comune.bologna.it

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