Giuseppe Verdi: La Battaglia Di Legnano

“La battaglia di Legnano” is the only opera Verdi’s opera that actually has a direct to the Italian unification movement, the so-called Risorgimento. Risorgimento, has. Superficially, the plot is about the Plot is about the confrontation of the lombard League of Cities with the Staufenkaiser in the year 1176

There is no doubt, however, that librettist Salvadore Cammarano was portraying the uprising of the italian provinces against the then Habsburg emperor in Vienna. When the Resistance was broken and the Restoration had restored all the old were restored, a performance of this revolutionary revolutionary material could no longer be considered

But even in the 20th century the opera remained a stepchild among Stepchild among Verdi operas. The present Live recording of the production by Ruggero Cappuccio took place in February 2012 at the Teatro Lirico “Giuseppe Verdi” in Trieste.