La battaglia di Legnano

Part of Tutto Verdi series La battaglia di Legnano 2012 Trieste La battaglia di Legnano The Battle of Legnano is an opera in four acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italianlanguage libretto by Salvadore Cammarano Most of the early Verdi operas are sort of rare for a reason They do not rise to the heights of genius that his middle period and late period operas did However there are always some beautiful arias or choruses and most of them are great funsort of like bel canto on steroids What I mean is that you can hear that he was coming from the bel canto tradition but he liked to inject a lot more power into the characters and their music