in it surpass anything that Verdi had written up to that time", and finds the soprano part to be of "rare distinction" and the solo numbers and many of the ensembles to be of "high caliber". Recordings Several recordings of live performances of Giovanna d'Arco have been released. The only studio recording dates from 1972 and features James Levine conducting with Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, and Sherrill Milnes. Domingo sang the tenor role of Carlo on that recording and the baritone role of Giacomo in a live performance recorded in 2013 with Anna Netrebko. References Notes Cited sources Baldini, Gabriele (trans. Roger Parker), The Story of Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1980. . Budden, Julian, The Operas of Verdi, Volume 1: From Oberto to Rigoletto. London: Cassell, 1984. . Kimbell, David (2001), in Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. . Kimbell, David (1981), Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1981. , . Osborne, Charles, Verdi: A Life in the Theatre. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Parker, Roger, "Giovanna d'Arco" in Stanley Sadie, (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Volume 2. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1998. , . Warrack, John and West, Ewan, The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. New York: OUP, 1992. . Weaver, William, The Golden Century of Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980. . . Other sources De Van, Gilles (trans. Gilda Roberts), Verdi’s Theater: Creating Drama Through Music. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (hardback), . Gossett, Philip, Divas and Scholar: Performing Italian Opera, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. . Martin, George, Verdi: His Music, Life and Times. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1983. . Osborne, Charles, The Complete Opera of Verdi. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969. . Parker, Roger, The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. . Pistone, Danièle, Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera: From Rossini to Puccini. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1995. . Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane, Verdi: A Biography. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. . Rizzuti, Alberto (ed.), "Giovanna d'Arco: Dramma lirico in Four Acts by Temistocle Solera", in The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (critical edition), Series 1: Operas. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2009. , . Toye, Francis, Giuseppe