musicians which Verdi had created. Arturo Toscanini directed a choir of 900 singers in the famous Va, pensiero from Nabucco. Depictions in media After Aida: Strepponi is one of the main characters in Julian Mitchell's 1985 play-with-music, which focuses on Verdi's life and compositions after 1879 and in persuading him to compose Otello Risorgimento! (2011), the opera by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero. Verdi und die Dame mit Noten, opera by Mathias Husmann (b. 1948), premiered at the Hamburger Kammeroper in 2015, conducted by Florian Csizmadia. In November 2001, Tell Giulio the Chocolate is Ready, a radio play by Murray Dahm, was produced and broadcast by Radio New Zealand. The play is based on the letters of the Verdi-Boito correspondence and explores the genesis and production of Verdi and Boito's opera Otello including the role played by Giuseppina Strepponi. The play and broadcast included those sections of the opera as they appeared in the correspondence (such as Iago's Credo). DVD 'Giuseppe Verdi' 2005 published by 'House of knowledge' Semi documentary biography of the composer's life and works. Ronald Pickup. An excellent well documented dramatisation. References Notes Sources Baldini, Gabriele (1980), (trans. Roger Parker), The Story of Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera. Cambridge, et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1980. . Budden, Julian (1984), The Operas of Verdi, Volume 2: From Il Trovatore to La Forza del Destino. London: Cassell. (hardcover) (paperback). Budden, Julian (1998), "Giuseppina Strepponi", in Stanley Sadie, (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. Four, pp. 582 – 583. London: Macmillan Publishers, Inc. . . Kutsch, K. J. and Riemens, Leo (1969), A Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers: From the Beginning of Recorded Sound to the Present (Trans. from German, expanded and annotated by Harry Earl Jones). Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company. . Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane (1993), "Giuseppina Strepponi" (early life) and subsequent many references, Verdi: A Biography. London & New York: Oxford University Press. . Rizzo, Dino (2019), "Giuseppina Strepponi", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 94, Treccani, Roma, 2019. Többen, Irene (2003), "Ich wollte eine neue Frau werden", Giuseppina Strepponi, Verdis Frau, Ein Lebensbild. Berlin: Das Arsenal. Walker, Frank (1962), The Man Verdi, New York: Knopf and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. . External links Portraits of Strepponi at different times in her life on giuseppeverdi.it Italian operatic sopranos 1815 births 1897 deaths People from Lodi, Lombardy Giuseppe Verdi 19th-century composers 19th-century Italian women