Commedia

A film by Rémy Campos on the research project led by Francis Biggi "La Bella Franceschina: the musical sources of the Commedia dell'Arte", 2014.

Commedia dell'arte is a form of performance familiar to contemporary audiences, but not all aspects of it have been equally documented by historical research. The La bella Franceschina project set out to learn more about one of the neglected aspects of this form of expression: its musical origins in the mid-fifteenth century in the form of sung and dramatised plays. The research took the form of an experiment involving students and researchers and culminated in a show combining traditional animated film, music and recitation.