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Giovanna d'Arco

• Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Italian
• Libretto Temistocle Solera
• Based on the play Die Jungfrau von Orléans by Friedrich Schiller
• Opera was given also with the title: Orietta di Lesbo.
• Time: 1429. Place: Domrémy, Rheims and near Rouen, France.
• Premiere Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 15 February 1845
  
  
  
  

Joan at the Coronation of Charles VII by Jean-Auguste Ingres, 1855 (Louvre)

• Characters:
  • Giovanna, soprano
    • HP Jeanne d'Arc, La Pucelle d'Orléans
    • Erminia Frezzolini (lirica) sang in the first premiere 15 Feb 1845
    • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli
    • Teresa Stolz
    • Renata Tebaldi
    • Anna Moffo
    • Montserrat Caballé
    • Ángeles Gulín
  • Carlo VII, King of France, tenor
    • HP Charles VII de Valois, roi de France
    • Antonio Poggi sang in the first premiere 15 Feb 1845
    • Raffaele Angelo Agostino Mirate
    • Carlo Negrini ao. in Ancona
    • Carlo Bergonzi
    • Plácido Domingo
  • Giacomo, shepherd and father of Giovanna, baritone
    • HP Jacques d'Arc du Lys
    • Filippo Colini sang in the first premiere 15 Feb 1845
    • Gaetano Ferri
    • Giovanni Corsi
    • Rolando Panerai
    • Renato Bruson
  • Talbot, an English Commander, bass
    • Francesco Lodetti sang in the first premiere
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
  • Delil, a French officer, tenor
    • Napoleone Moriani Milano 1844
• Conductors:
  • Eugenio Cavallini conducted the first premiere 15 Feb 1845
  • Luigi Fabbrica
  • Gabriele Santini
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • Igor Markevitch
  • James Lawrence Levine
  • Riccardo Chailly, OMRI
• Stage directors
  • Giuseppe Cencetti (at the Teatro Apollo in Rome)
  • Werner Herzog (1989 Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2001 Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa)
    
    
    

A performance of Giovanna d'Arco dedicated to and sponsored by contessa Giulia Samoyloff.

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