VERDI - GIOVANNA D'ARCO / BOWERS, BRUSON, VASSILEVA / ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA / BRUNO BARTOLETTI / STAGED BY GABRIELE LAVIA / TUTTO VERDI / unitel classica / DVD Video

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Playtime is 138 Minutes 

This 2008 Teatro Regio di Parma production mounts Giuseppe Verdi's 1845 opera Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc) on the stage, with a cast that features Evan Bowers as Carlo VII, Renato Bruson as Giacomo, Svetla Vassileva as Giovanna and Luigi Petroni as Delil. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio De Parma lend musical accompaniment under the baton of maestro Bruno Bartoletti. Andrea Viotti designed the costumes, Alessandro Camera created the sets, and Gabriele Lavia directs for the stage. 

TUTTO VERDI-this edition to mark the Verdi bicentenary sets standards by which all similar projects will be judged. It includes all twenty-six operas by the greatest Italian stage composer, together with his immortal Requiem, all of them in definitive performances.

"THIS IS HOW VERDI SHOULD BE PLAYED"-Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on TUTTO VERDI

Giovanna d'Arco is based on Friedrich Schiller's tragedy The Maid of Orleans and deals with the life of Joan of Arc. But Verdi and his librettist Temistocle Solera departed from both Schiller and historical fact by turning Joan's father into the opera's powerful antagonist. Ever since its first performance in Milan in 1845, Giovanna d'Arco has been admired and loved for its emotionally affecting arias and thrilling choral writing