Choral voices narrate the tale of Giuseppe Giacosa, poet, playwriter and writer for Giacomo Puccini's Bohéme, Tosca and Madame Buttefly Librettos.
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A 100 years after Giuseppe Giacosa
Abstract
Choral voices narrate the tale of Giuseppe Giacosa, poet, playwriter and writer for Giacomo Puccini's Bohéme, Tosca and Madame Buttefly Librettos. The life and deeds of a man who was born in the "small world of the Canavese region" (r.n.: in Piedmont, Northern Italy), made it to the "big world" of the Arts, and managed to bring this new wider world back into his own country mansion: from Carducci to Boito, from De Amicis to Pascoli, from Sarah Bernhardt to Eleonora Duse, from Puccini to D'Annunzio, the entire "intellighenzia" of his age came round the "Great Ark" (this is how the poet Francesco Pastonchi nicknamed Villa Giacosa in 1906), and left signatures on the porch's walls, a true "autographs museum".
Languages Italian, English, French
Format DVD.
Duration: 35' + 22'
Technical staff
Direction and Screenplay: Andrea Tomasetto.
Artistic supervision: Sante Altizio. Photography: Antonio Venere. Operators: Diego Fatone and Daniele Titonella.
Production: Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, 2006.
Cast Voices: Paola Roman and Claudio Parachinetto. With the participation of: Mauro Avogadro, Giacomo Bottino, Oliviero Corbetta, Guido Davico Bonino, Susanna Franchi, Lucio Gallo, Lido Gedda, Piergiuseppe Gillio, Giorgio Pestelli.
