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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), the greatest Italian opera-composer, composed his opera ‘La Forza del Destino’ in 1862 and it was first performed in the St.Petersburg Operahouse.The story of ’the Power of Fate’ was settled in the middle of the eighteenth century in Spain and Italy at that time at war with Germany. The famous aria ‘Pace, pace, mio Dio’ is sung by Leonora in the final act and has become one of the beloved aria’s of great soprano’s as Tebaldi, Callas, Freni and Price.