After Aida, Or, Verdi's Messiah

Synopsis

After the triumphs of Aida and the Requiem in the early 1870's, the composer Verdi has retired to the country.

His two friends, Ricordi the publisher and Faccio the conductor, convinced that Verdi should write another opera, finally manage to persuade him to collaborate with the young librettist Arrigo Bioto on a new work, Otello.