Lucilla Giagnoni
(Persefone award – theater in television 2007)

A BISANZIO!

Storia di Anna Comnena Imperatrice dei Romani
(“To Byzantio! Story of Anna Comnena, Romans’ Empress”)

By Federica Federici, Lucilla Giagnoni and Emilio Sioli
Featuring Lucilla Giagnoni and Janos Hasur (violin)
Music by Paolo Pizzimenti
Directed by Lucilla Giagnoni and Emilio Sioli

The true story of Byzantine Empire and his Emperor Alessio Comneno I, viewed by his doting daughter Anna Comnena, during the first Crusade on 1099 DC.
The relationship between East and West at that time it seems very close to the present, if we compare the Franks army to a sort of American young civilization, the modern Islamic nations to the ancient Turk rule and, in the middle, the old Byzatine Emperor is compared as well to the Europe of today, searching to survive.
Anna Comnena dreamed out to be Empress recalling the intrigues, the revolts, the massacres and the invasions during that complex and delicate Era

A  Il Contato del  Canavese/Teatro Giacosa and  Associazione delle Arti e delle Corti co production