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Doc Soup: VIVA VERDI!

Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025
Viva Verdi! explores the lives of retired opera singers and musicians at Milan’s Casa Verdi, founded by Giuseppe Verdi.
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General Admission Ticket - $17.00

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Viva Verdi! offers an intimate glimpse into the celebrated opera singers and musicians living out their ‘third act’ while mentoring international music students at Milan’s one-of-a-kind retirement home, Casa Verdi—founded by Giuseppe Verdi in 1896.

This feature documentary follows these distinguished masters, highlighting Verdi’s enduring legacy, still alive and thriving more than a century later. Through the voices of Casa Verdi’s residents—aged 77 to 107, including opera singers, ballet dancers, musicians, conductors and composers—we hear extraordinary personal and professional stories filled with music, magic and passion.

Verdi called Casa Verdi his “best work,” and its spirit of artistic care and intergenerational exchange continues to make it as visionary today as it was then.

In English and Italian with English subtitles.

Join director Yvonne Russo for a post-screening Q&A.



Film Info
Runtime:77
Copyright:2024
Country Listing:USA
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Yvonne Russo