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Giovanna D'Arco (2016)

Name: Giovanna D'Arco
Director: Saskia Boddeke
Genre: Music
Released: 2016-01-01
Duration: 2 h 7 min
Cast: Luciano Ganci, Lara Guidetti, Luciano Leoni, Gabriele Mangione, Linda Vignudelli

Recorded live at Teatro Farnese during the Festival Verdi, 2 to 20 October 2016.

IMDb 0.02h 7mMusic

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Plot Summary

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.