Verdi Year 2001

In 2001 Post Offices and philatelists' community commemorate 100 year from the death of famous Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)



Here you can see the Postal Stationery issued by Romanian Post Office with Code 025-026/2001

On second cover Verdi is together with Arrigo Boito an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff,


More on Verdi here :

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/07/s...verdi.t.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi

In this year (2013) several Postal Authorities are issuing stamps to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth (and also Wagner's).

Hungary is doing something novel:

Magyar Posta is releasing "audible" postage stamps to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi.

The release is unusual because this is the first time that a QR code has appeared on Hungarian postage stamps. With a smart phone and the Internet information about the bicentenary on the HungarianState Opera House's web site can be heard and read. Portraits of the composers are at the centre of the stamp designs, while graphic compositions referring to works by them (Das Rheingold and Aida) are in the background. Fifty thousand copies of the miniature sheets designed by the Kossuth Prize-winning graphic artist István Orosz were printed by the ANY Security Printing Company.

@22crows

Very interesting ! Thanks