Le Roncole (today known as Roncole Verdi) is a village in the

province of Parma The Province of Parma ( it, Provincia di Parma) is a province in the Emilia–Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Parma. It is made up of 47 '' comuni''. It has an area of and a total population of around 450,00 ...

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region) of

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, a ''

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'' of the ''

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'' of Busseto. It is located 140 km southeast of

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. It is best known as the birthplace on 9 or 10 October 1813 of

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libre ...

composer Giuseppe Verdi. He retained a residence in the area almost his entire life, and wrote to Count Opprandino Arrivabene in 1863 from Paris where it had been rumoured that he was intending to live in France: "I was, am and always will be a peasant from Roncole." The house has been a national monument since 1901.Mordacci 2001 The composer's birthplace, the "Casa Natale del Maestro", can be visited, as can the organ used by the young Verdi in the church a few kilometers away.

References

Notes Sources * Associazione Amici di Verdi (ed.), ''Con Verdi nella sua terra'', Busetto, 1997 * Mordacci, Alessandra (2001), (trans. Studio Dott. Annita Brindani), ''An Itinerary of History and Art in the Places of Verdi'', Busseto: Busseto Tourist Office *

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane Mary Jane Phillips-Matz (January 30, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American biographer and writer on opera. She is mainly known for her biography of Giuseppe Verdi, a result of 30 years' research and published in 1992 by Oxford University Press ...

(1993), ''Verdi: A Biography'', London & New York: Oxford University Press.

External links

Busseto Tourist Office website
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