The Berliner Operngruppe under Felix Krieger presented the opera in March 2018 at Konzerthaus Berlin. La Scala, Milan, presented the opera for the first time in 150 years in 2015 in a new production with Anna Netrebko in the title role. In September 2013, Chicago Opera Theater staged performances of the opera. įully staged productions were mounted by the San Diego Opera in June 1980 as part of its short-lived "Verdi Festival", and by the Royal Opera, London in June 1996 with Vladimir Chernov as Giacomo and June Anderson as Giovanna. It received its UK premiere at the Royal Academy of Music in London on. Its first stage performance in the US was given in 1976 by Vincent La Selva at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The US premiere was given in March 1966, in a concert performance at Carnegie Hall, New York, with Teresa Stratas in the title role. In 1951 Renata Tebaldi sang the title role in Naples, Milan (a studio-recorded broadcast) and Paris, in a tour that led to further revivals. La Scala did not stage another Verdi premiere until the revised version of Simon Boccanegra 36 years later. Due to Merelli's underhand negotiations to acquire the rights to the score from Ricordi, the composer vowed never to deal with the impresario nor set foot on the stage of La Scala again. Verdi himself thought highly of the opera but was unhappy with the way it was staged and "with the deteriorating standards of Merelli's productions" overall. Baritone Filippo Colini portrayed Giovanna's father Giacomo. She was paired with her husband, tenor Antonio Poggi, as Charles, King of France. The first Giovanna was Erminia Frezzolini, who had previously appeared in Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata two years earlier. He criticized the flow of the libretto compared to the play, writing that "characters are reduced to a minimum" and "for poetry and humanity we are given theatrical sensationalism". Musicologist Julian Budden believes that "invention was not Solera's strong suit" and describes Solera's work as "merely Schiller diluted".
Solera denied that Schiller's play was the source of his work and wrote that the work was "an entirely original Italian drama I have not allowed myself to be imposed upon by the authority either of Schiller or Shakespeare My play is original" (emphasis in original). Solera was asked by Verdi's publisher, Giovanni Ricordi, for assurances that his libretto violated no copyright, noting that he had heard of a French treatment of the subject. By the middle of the 19th century, the story of Joan of Arc had served as the basis for many operas, including those of Nicola Vaccai (1827) and Giovanni Pacini (1830), both of which were strongly reminiscent of Schiller's play.
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