Giovanna d'Arco [SEP] country of origin
Lesbians against the Turks. Performances under this title were also given in Palermo in 1848.
For the next 20 years "Giovanna d'Arco" had steady success in Italy, with stagings in Florence, Lucca, and Senigallia in 1845, Turin and Venice in 1846, Mantua in 1848, and Milan in 1851, 1858, and 1865. It was also presented elsewhere in Europe, Over the course of the nineteenth century, stagings declined to a very few.
20th and 21st centuries
In 1951 Renata Tebaldi sang the
Giovanna d'Arco
Giovanna d'Arco ("Joan of Arc") is an operatic "dramma lirico" with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, who had prepared the libretti for "Nabucco" and "I Lombardi". It is Verdi's seventh opera.
The work partly reflects the story of Joan of Arc and appears to be loosely based on the play "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" by Friedrich von Schiller. Verdi wrote the music during the autumn and winter of