Giovanna D'Arco (2016)
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.
Directors: Peter Greenaway, Saskia Boddeke.
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Luciano Ganci as Carlo VII, re di Francia |
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Lara Guidetti as Giovanna guerriera |
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Luciano Leoni as Talbot, supremo comandante degli inglesi |
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Gabriele Mangione as Delil, ufficiale del re |
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Linda Vignudelli as Giovanna innocente |
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Vittorio Vitelli as Giacomo, pastore in Domrémy |
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Vittoria Yeo as Giovanna, sua figlia |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cornelia Doornekamp | Costume Design |
| Directing | Peter Greenaway | Stage Director |
| Directing | Peter Greenaway | Director |
| Directing | Saskia Boddeke | Stage Director |
| Production | Magdalena Herbst | Producer |
| Art | Annette Mosk | Production Design |
| Directing | Saskia Boddeke | Director |
| Writing | Friedrich Schiller | Novel |
| Writing | Temistocle Solera | Writer |
| Production | Claudio Speranzini | Producer |
| Crew | Ruzbeh Babol | Cinematography |
| Editing | Elmer Leupen | Editor |
