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- I am in Parma, a town characterized not only by its major historical buildings, but also by its music and drama, that the town always loved and kept.

- Let’s go discover it. We are one of the most beautiful squares of Italy, aren’t we Professor Godi?

- For sure. We are in the heart of the town, on Cathedral, Episcope, Baptistery Square,

- it is a medieval square with an old tradition that naturally represents every medieval squares in Italy.

- The Baptistery is by Benedetto Antelami, started in 1196, with octagonal-shaped, Verona marble-made, but its major feature is the whole of the architraves of the boxes.

- The Bishop’s Palace is still medieval, as you can see it, with its three-foiled nice windows.

- The Cathedral that hosts da Correggio’s works and several painters’ of the 5th century thus owns an anthology of Renaissance painting.

- Let’s go on with our visit.

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- I am in the magnificient Farnese theatre place, a theatre place which was built for a wedding, wasn’t it?

- Indeed, it is one of Duke Ranuccio’s whims, who built it for Odoardo’s wedding with the Duke of Florence’s daughter.

- Quite an extravagant deed.

- Extravagant, Duke Ranuccio was extravagant. He turned this theatre into the first modern theatre in the world, with mobile stages.

- The scenographer could thus give free rein to his fantasy making stages. Unlike in Vicence, where the stage was fastened, for instance.

- But the suggestion of the theatre is also due to the wholly wooden made material.

- It is wholly wooden made, it used to be painted with the technique of fake marble,

- now it is a reconstruction with original parts, with also with new parts set after the 1944 bombing.

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- We arrived at the Regio Theatre, a theatre highly desired by Duchess Marialuigia, wasn’t it?

- Marialuigia knows drama very well, she knows drama of whole Europe, in the past she was also an empress,

- so she comes from Parma and whishes to own a new theatre, and here we truly are in Verdi Festival.

- And here a great artistic production of the Verdi Festival is taking place.

- Wanted and appreciated by the people of Parma, who fervently expect it.

- And from the Regio Theatre, where a great soprano such as Renata Tebaldi used to sing,

- we passed to Torre Chiara Castel, where there is a permanent exhibition about Renata Tebald.

- Yes, the castle for the Queen. In this prestigious castle, we gathered over 30 stage suits and clothes worn by her.

- A suit such as that, for instance, drawn for her by Beni Montresor at the Metropolitan of New York and others such as, on the floor below, for instance, clothes drawn by De Chirico.

- Let’s not forget that adding to Renata’s clothes, we have also gathered some of her famous colleagues’ suits, such as Mario del Monaco and Giuseppe di Stefano.

- A soprano with an international importance.

- Yes, I would say a soprano who shaped the history of Italian melodrama over last century.

- Here, from Torre Chiara Castel, built in 1400 by the warrior Pier Maria Rossi for his beloved Bianca Pellegrini.