Verdi had at Giovanna Darco probably two souls in his breast. On one hand, he was held in February 1845 this was the best of his previous operas, on the other hand, this piece also stands for the difficult relationship of the composer to La Scala in Milan. After Giovanna Darco Verdi returned to the Scala for a quarter century back the reasons are still unknown.
The performance history of Giovanna Darco is also a history of prima donnas. Verdi, as is speculated, have tailored this opera especially on his leading lady Erminia Frezzolini. The had just separated from her fiance, had to be on stage with him, but was celebrated star as in later years, Sofia Loewe, Teresa Stolz and give Renata Tebaldi. Frezzolini gambled away a short time later on the Paris Bourse and experienced sad leaving in second-rate theaters.
These prima donnas thread has spun in the Salzburg Felsenreitschule continue Anna Netrebko. She finds in Germany not only friends apparently because of their strong media presence and their alleged closeness to Putin. But the fact is that they in Salzburg celebrated a triumph at the side of Plácido Domingo and Francesco Meli. There was only praise. The new Anna Netrebko sings Verdi's great prima donnas. Here her voice has become more difficult, a soprano who has found its way from lyrical to the dramatic subject. The 72-year-old Plácido Domingo presented itself not only as fatherly baritone, but on the side Netrebko as cavalier of the old school. Also Meli was a blemish free Verdi singing attested as if Carlo Bergonzi risen. The still alive! Netrebko's announcement in Salzburg, she wanted to continue singing Verdi more, I can only welcome.
The booklet I will once again not happy. Citations of Verdi connoisseur Roger Parker, but that's no news. With such a long production time of the CD you wanted a more recent article, perhaps a media frenzy in Salzburg in 2013. Here also makes the German Grammophon too little customer service.
