Giovanna D'Arco
The story
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.
Cast & crew
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
Magdalena Herbst
Producer
Claudio Speranzini
Producer
Peter Greenaway
Director
Saskia Boddeke
Director