Fosco Giachetti as Giuseppe Verdi

Gaby Morlay as Giuseppina Strepponi

Germana Paolieri as Margherita Barezzi

Camillo Pilotto as Antonio Barezzi

Cesco Baseggio as Papà Verdi

Maria Jacobini as Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi

Maria Cebotari as Teresina Stolz

Febo Mari as Marelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano

Carlo Duse as Temistocle Solera

Eugenio Duse as L'impressario Massini

Enrico Glori as Il maestro Mariani

Clara Padoa as La contessa Maffei

Achille Majeroni as Il maestro Basili

Carlo Tamberlani as Demalde

Augusto Di Giovanni as Antonio Ghislanzoni

Gustavo Serena as Salvatore Cammarano

Guido Celano as Francesco Maria Piave

Lamberto Picasso as Gaetano Donizzetti

Pierre Brasseur as Alexandre Dumas figlio

Gabriel Gabrio as Honoré De Balzac

Beniamino Gigli as Il tenore Mirate

Henri Rollan as Victor Hugo