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Luperpedia Foundation
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Giovanna D'Arco
Recorded live at Teatro Farnese during the Festival Verdi, 2 to 20 October 2016.
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Claudio Speranzini, Magdalena Herbst
Writer: Temistocle Solera
Director: Saskia Boddeke, Peter Greenaway
