La Gioconda
Directed by Marc WieviorkaVenice was ruled by a Council of Ten (CX) made up of members of the highest aristocracy, co-opted among themselves and under the theoretical authority of the Doge who in fact had no power other than representative and was a plaything. in their hands. The C.X exercised absolute authority over the country, neglecting nothing to establish it, as shown by the institution of the famous "lion's mouth" still visible in the Doge's Palace, and the all-powerful spies he maintained urbi et orbi. Venice designated itself under the title of Serenissima Republic, we measure the irony of the title at the time when the facts of the opera unfolds: a republic, it was one in its beginnings, also serene, to establish, in defiance of all rules and ethics, its trade in the Mediterranean basin. But the hour of forfeiture was about to strike in the 15th century: the improvements in long-distance navigation methods, the discoveries that were to result (America, passage of the Cape of Good Hope, etc.), would revolutionize world trade, ruin that of Venice and lead the country towards a rapid decline with the excesses, political, social, financial and artistic that one encounters in these ends of regimes and which Bonaparte was going to try to remedy.
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La Gioconda was directed by Marc Wieviorka.
La Gioconda was produced by Laurent Lesperon.
Venice was ruled by a Council of Ten (CX) made up of members of the highest aristocracy, co-opted among themselves and under the theoretical authority of the Doge who in fact had no power other than representative and was a plaything. in their hands. The C.X exercised absolute authority over the country, neglecting nothing to establish it, as shown by the institution of the famous "lion's mouth" still visible in the Doge's Palace, and the all-powerful spies he maintained urbi et orbi. Venice designated itself under the title of Serenissima Republic, we measure the irony of the title at the time when the facts of the opera unfolds: a republic, it was one in its beginnings, also serene, to establish, in defiance of all rules and ethics, its trade in the Mediterranean basin. But the hour of forfeiture was about to strike in the 15th century: the improvements in long-distance navigation methods, the discoveries that were to result (America, passage of the Cape of Good Hope, etc.), would revolutionize world trade, ruin that of Venice and lead the country towards a rapid decline with the excesses, political, social, financial and artistic that one encounters in these ends of regimes and which Bonaparte was going to try to remedy.
La Gioconda is a Musical film.