The DVD, originally filmed as a TV broadcast on RAI, was directed by Mimma Nocelli and longtime De André collaborator Pepi Morgia, and produced by Dori Ghezzi, who released it in 2004 on her own label Nuvole Productions.

Because of the higher prominence given to past material, De André's second-to-last album Le nuvole is completely absent from the setlist of the show; "Don Raffaé", the most easily accessible track from that album and arguably its "greatest hit", was included in the setlist for the first leg of the 1997 tour, but, according to a comment by De André in the "Backstage" bonus feature, it was later dropped from the winter 1997 setlist and throughout 1998 in favour of "Bocca di Rosa" - which holds an even larger popularity among De André's fan base.

The show features almost all of the musicians who played on Anime salve, most of which are regular members of De André's live backing band since 1991.

The band also includes American-born keyboardist Mark Harris (who was a stable band member during the first half of the 1980s, but was later dismissed), Neapolitan session percussionist Rosario Jermano (replacing Giuseppe "Naco" Bonaccorso, who played on Anime salve and was tragically killed in a 1996 car crash) and both of De André's children – multi-instrumentalist Cristiano on violin, guitars and keyboards, and Luisa Vittoria, nicknamed "Luvi", as a female vocalist.

[5] The backdrop for the show, which always puts a greater emphasis on the music than on the visuals, is a house of cards made up of wood panels, each one decorated with a pasted-on, oil-on-paper and hugely blown up pictorial rendition of a "Major Arcana" card from a Marseilles Tarot deck; all the pictures are also vaguely similar to Pamela Colman Smith's well-known illustrations for the Rider–Waite deck, but with names in French.