11. One of his operas has its scene laid in Boston, Mass.
12. Another is about Egypt, and the scene is laid in Memphis and Thebes, in the time of the Pharaohs.
13. Verdi founded, for aged musicians, the Casa di Riposo (House of Rest).
14. Besides the thirty operas Verdi wrote a string quartet, The Manzoni Requiem, and a National Hymn.
15. For a period of sixteen years Verdi wrote no operas. Then he produced his two great works, Othello and Falstaff.
16. He died at St. Agatha, January 27, 1901.
SOME QUESTIONS
1. When and where was Verdi born?
2. How old was he when he died?
3. Can you mention three works of Verdi that are not operas?