Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login They did not sing “Happy Birthday.” At least, not at first.
Instead, they celebrated Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday last month with a rendition of Va, pensiero, a chorus from his opera, Nabucco . The song is so beloved that there have been proposals to make it Italy’s national anthem. The choir consisted of men from all walks of life – bankers, a surgeon, a lawyer, a neuroscientist, a vegetable vendor – and with one burning passion in common: adoration for the 19th-century composer.
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