This important recognition is conferred by the Club of 27 to people who have honored and spread throughout the world the name and the works of the Master.
The Knights of Verdi from 1975 to today
Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone, 8 November 1975
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, 24 May 1976
Renata Tebaldi, soprano, 24 March 1979
Mirella Freni, soprano, 4 April 1980
Romano Gandolfi, conductor, 4 April 1980
Renato Bruson, baritone, 1 January 1981
Corale Verdi – Parma, chorus, 10 October 1982
Beniamino Gigli (to memory), tenor, 10 December 1982
Franco Corelli, tenor, 22 September 1985
Carlo Bergonzi, tenor, 24 May 1986
Piero Cappuccilli, baritone, 13 May 1988
Giulietta Simionato, mezzo soprano, 9 October 1988
Leo Nucci, baritone, 4 June 1993
Riccardo Muti, conductor, 10 January 1994
Claudio Abbado, conductor, 20 January 1995
Pierluigi Petrobelli, director of the National Institute of Verdi Studies, 28 June 1999
Renata Scotto, soprano, 15 June 2001
Placido Domingo, tenor, 27 February 2002
José Carreras, tenor, 5 April 2005
Zubin Mehta, conductor, 5 May 2009
Fiorenza Cossotto, mezzo soprano, 29 October 2013
Pier Luigi Pizzi, director, 29 October 2013
Donato Renzetti, conductor, 29 October 2013
Philip Gossett, musicologist, 4 December 2013
Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass, 17 October 2014
Dimitra Theodossiou, soprano, 17 October 2017
Michele Pertusi, bass, 23 April 2018
Gregory Kunde, tenor, 15 October 2018