Giuseppe Verdi is one of many statues to the composer in Italy. The Giuseppe Verdi Monument, a 1906 marble memorial, sculpted by Pasquale Civiletti, is located in Verdi Square in Manhattan, New York City. The monument includes a statue of Verdi himself and life-sized statues of four characters from his operas, (Aida, Otello, and Falstaff from the operas of the same names, and Leonora from "Il trovatore"). Verdi has been the subject of a number of film and stage works. These include the 1938 film directed by Carmine Gallone, "Giuseppe Verdi", starring Fosco Giachetti; the 1982 miniseries, "The Life of Verdi", directed
Felix Knight Arwater Kent Foundation Scholarship Auditions of the Air, and made it to Manhattan prior to placing second in the judging. Upon returning to California, Knight sang at the Hollywood Bowl in the Giuseppe Verdi opera "La traviata" alongside Lily Pons, and then traveled to San Francisco, California, where he did Hector Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust" with the city's opera company. Once he returned to Hollywood, he continued voice studying and radio work, including the CBS program "Shell Mountain House" with Raymond Paige and his Orchestra. Knight finally made his screen debut in 1934 in RKO Pictures "Down to Their