The General Director of the Teatro Regio di Parma, Anna Maria Meo, will be in Toronto to present the Verdi Festival that will be held at Parma and Busseto from September 28 to October 22, 2017. The presentation will feature a 15 minute video from Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco, directed by Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke, performed at the Verdi Festival in 2016.
Each Autumn, around Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday on October 10, when his two hometowns of Parma and Busseto in Italy vibrate with unique colours and fragrances that speak to our collective imagination, Festival Verdi comes to life: a full month of music, opera, exhibitions and conferences to celebrate the great Maestro in his native lands.
Festival Verdi is the only festival exclusively devoted to studying and staging the works of Giuseppe Verdi. It was inaugurated by the Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma in 2001, one hundred years after Verdi’s death. Since then, extraordinarily talented artists have been part of the Festival, including conductors: Bruno Bartoletti, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano and Yuri Temirkanov and directors: Hugo De Ana, Dante Ferretti, Peter Greenaway, Denis Krief, Pier’Alli, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Stefano Poda, Pier Luigi Samaritani, Graham Vick.