[bboop]

Article says that Verdi was not religious. Can anyone confirm that? I think it is bogus — his music is reverential and liturgical. Sounds like revisionist history to me.

[Borges]

Verdi was not religious at all. The Requiem was criticized at the time as being more of a theatrical spectacle. His operas are blood and thunder. Where do you here the ‘reverential and liturgical’ side? Or are you confusing him with Monteverdi?