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Giovanna D'Arco

2016 127 min Music

With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and opera at the Verdi Festival in Parma, demonstrating what magic those two can do together with an all new approach to Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, staged and edited by himself and his wife, Saskia Boddeke. The opera's libretto is based on Friedrich Schiller's 'The Maid of Orleans'. It tells the story of the French national hero Jeanne d'Arc, who defends her country against the English troops during the Hundred Years' War. Constantly torn between her humble roots, her love for King Charles VII and her heavenly task to fight for France, she gains eternal glory by giving her life in the final, victorious battle against England.

Director: Peter Greenaway Director: Saskia Boddeke Writer: Temistocle Solera

Cast

Luciano Ganci Luciano Ganci Carlo VII, re di Francia
Lara Guidetti Lara Guidetti Giovanna guerriera
Luciano Leoni Luciano Leoni Talbot, supremo comandante degli inglesi
Gabriele Mangione Gabriele Mangione Delil, ufficiale del re
Linda Vignudelli Linda Vignudelli Giovanna innocente
Vittorio Vitelli Vittorio Vitelli Giacomo, pastore in Domrémy
Vittoria Yeo Vittoria Yeo Giovanna, sua figlia