Name: Giovanna d'Arco
Start: 2008-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2008-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Regio

Organization

Festival Verdi

Cantante

Tenore

Evan Bowers

Carlo VII

Baritono

Renato Bruson

Giacomo

Soprano

Svetla Vassileva

Giovanna

Luigi Petroni

Delil

Basso

Maurizio Piccolo

Talbot

Direzione d'orchestra

Bruno Bartoletti

Regia

Gabriele Lavia

Scenografia

Alessandro Camera

Costumi

Andrea Viotti

Direzione del coro

Martino Faggiani

Others

Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma

Teatro Regio di Parma

Giovanna d'Arco

Parma

Italia

Teatro Regio

Milan 1845: With "Giovanna d'Arco", his seventh opera, Giuseppe Verdi achieves a great public success at the premiere at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The day after the premiere he writes enthusiastically that it is "without exception and without a doubt the best" of his previous operas. However, Verdi does not agree with the staging, which leads to a long-standing quarrel with the Scala director.

The dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts deals with the life of Joan of Arc (Johanna von Orléans). The libretto was written by Temistocle Solera, who had already written the librettos to "Oberto", "Nabucco" and "I Lombardi" for Verdi; "Attila" follows a year after "Giovanna d'Arco".
Solera uses the tragedy "The Maid of Orléans" by Friedrich Schiller, with which Verdi sets the first of his Schiller operas to music. "I Masnadieri" (The Robbers), "Luisa Miller" (after "Intrigue and Love") and "Don Carlos" follow.
The figure of Giovanna is dominant throughout the piece, and Verdi demands the finest vocal ornamentation techniques typical of his early compositional phase. Possibly "Giovanna d'Arco" was initially intended as a choral tableau, but the composer changed the emphasis in favor of the vocal artistry of the premiere's prima donna, Erminia Frezzolini.

Giovanna d'Arco Verdi

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