Giovanna D'Arco

Overview

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.

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Cast

Luciano Ganci

Carlo VII, re di Francia

Lara Guidetti

Giovanna guerriera

Luciano Leoni

Talbot, supremo comandante degli inglesi

Gabriele Mangione

Delil, ufficiale del re

Linda Vignudelli

Giovanna innocente

Vittorio Vitelli

Giacomo, pastore in Domrémy

Vittoria Yeo

Giovanna, sua figlia