Scratching their heads, they tell him that if he is not Milanese, he must be foreign, to which he replies, “I am Italian ... his grief, Verdi throws himself into a new opera, Nabucco ...

Giuseppe Verdi (or 'Joe Green' in English!) was an Italian composer who dominated the Italian opera scene in the late 19th Century. Verdi's first opera – 'Oberto', written in 1839 – was a big ...