Viva Verdi! Synopsis

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.

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