Riccardo Chailly - Giovanna D'arco - BLU-RAY

With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) combines the worlds of film and opera at the Festival Verdi in Parma with an all new approach to Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, staged and edited by himself and Saskia Boddeke. Turning the auditorium into part of the set, Greenaway includes the unique architecture of the Teatro Farnese into his staging. With the help of spectacular video and light installations, he creates a completely new opera experience, using a striking imagery that includes depictions of the Madonna, modern manga girls and the real faces of refugee children. InchIt is a thrilling moment when threads of light spread over the darkened arches during the overture, shaping the architecture and flooding the whole area with changing light patterns.Inch (Daily Express)

Here is the introduction to the opera Giovanna d Arco conducted by Bruno Bartoletti with the MET Royal Opera House Salzburg Festival and Paris Opera.

The musical notes of this Puccini masterpiece provide the starting point and foundation for a new, highly successful collaboration between Riccardo Chailly and Davide Livermore. In their interpretation, there is 'no moment, no movement that goes against the musical meaning' (Chailly). The result is an energetic, authentic and atmospherically strong Boheme, 'in which every sacred phrase receives it's own orchestral color, it's own dynamic, and it's own expression' (Corriere della Sera).