Dell'Arco Giovanna d'Arco. Mystère cinematografico per musica

With his characteristic lively cultural curiosity and brilliant intuitions, in this new work, Roberto De Simone retraces and reinterprets the story and figure of Joan of Arc, a figure that has long persisted "in images, words, and sounds," from cinema to literature to music (symphonic or commercial): "a presence almost like a representative necessity, probably rooted in a progressive void in the formless mass imagination." Starting from a valuable edition of the trial documents found in a Parisian antiquarian bookshop, De Simone entertains the idea of ​​venturing into writing a play, and revisits his reading of the dramatic texts inspired by the character of Joan, freeing it from its romantic and "canonical" patina. The result is a “cinematic Mystery for Music” that draws on the various “voices,” from the institutional ones of the trial to the popular ones of the market and the storytellers, to construct a lively and varied program of one of the most fascinating and controversial historical myths of modern Europe.