Giovanna DArco

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 Verdis Giovanna dArco staged and edited by himself and his wife Saskia Boddeke The operas libretto is based on Friedrich Schillers The Maid of Orleans It tells the story of the French national hero Jeanne dArc 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