The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
as Giuseppe Verdi
as Giuseppina Strepponi
as Margherita Barezzi
as Antonio Barezzi
as Papà Verdi
as Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi
as Teresina Stolz
as Marelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano
as Temistocle Solera
as L'impressario Massini
as Il maestro Mariani
as La contessa Maffei
as Il maestro Basili
as Demalde
as Antonio Ghislanzoni
as Salvatore Cammarano
as Francesco Maria Piave
as Gaetano Donizzetti
as Alexandre Dumas figlio
as Honoré De Balzac
as Il tenore Mirate
as Victor Hugo
