The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his real opportunity arises when he becomes the lover of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Josef gets an incan incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe’s largest theatre.
Length 141 minutes
Vojtěch Dyk | Barbara Ronchi | Elena Radonicich | Lana Vlady | Dario Lubatti | Antonio De Matteo | Diego Pagotto | Alberto Cracco | Pietro Tammaro | Federica Vecchio | Fabrizio Parenti | Achille Brugnini | Mirko Ciccariello | Philip Hahn | Christian Dieterle | Lino Musella | Chiara Celotto | Karel Roden | Zdeněk Godla | Martina Babišová | Philippe Jaroussky | Emöke Baráth | Juan Sancho | Simona Šaturová | Krystian Adam | Giulia Semenzato | Sophie Harmsen | Benno Schachtner | Raffaella Milanesi | Cristiano Donati | Salvatore Langella | Lenka Vlasáková | Goran Maiello | Agáta Hrnčířová | Federica Rosellini | Bára Vidomská | Viktorie Hásková