Italian barman maybe burned, skin peeling off (5)
I believe the answer is:
verdi
'italian' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
I can't explain the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for verdi that I've seen before include "Drive around with great opera composer" , "Il trovatore composer" , "Diver became a strange composer" , "Drive around to locate opera composer" , "Drive like composer of operas" .)