Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera Filming Locations
Where was Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera filmed? Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera was filmed in 1 locations across Chile in the following places:
Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera Filming Locations
Valparaíso is a port city on Chile’s coast. It's known for its steep funiculars and colorful, clifftop homes. La Sebastiana, the quirky former residence of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, is now a museum with far-reaching Pacific views. During the 19th century, an influx of European immigrants left their mark on the city’s architecture and cultural institutions, many of which congregate around downtown’s Plaza Sotomayor.
Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera (2023)
On September 11, 1973, a military coup Chile deposed the democratically elected president Salvador Allende, installed General Augusto Pinochet, and unleashed years of vicious repression. Among those rounded up, imprisoned, and executed was Jorge Peña Hen, a composer and the conductor of a renowned children's orchestra. Forty-five years later, documentary filmmaker Kerry Candaele traveled to Valparaiso, Chile, to make a film about Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio. The opera is about a political prisoner, Florestan, unjustly held in a dungeon but ultimately rescued by his wife, Leonore, who has infiltrated the Prison by dressing as a man. In Valparaiso, Candaele assembles an orchestra and performers to stage portions of the opera, but he also meets an eccentric Butoh dancer named María Belén Espinosa Peña. In performance, she dresses as a man-an imprisoned musician-and plays out his final days "to rescue him from the Prison of forgetting". The man is her grandfather, Jorge Peña Hen. Struck by the similarities between Belén's story and the story of Fidelio, filmmaker Candaele has created a swirling, poetic, and deeply musical narrative that weaves them together, along with Beethoven's own search for love and justice.