Gloria!

Synopsis

Venice, 1800. Inside the dilapidated walls of the Sant'Ignazio Institute, a once-proud music school for young women, Teresa, a servant girl known only as "the Mute," moves silently through her daily chores. The students at the school are preparing for a visit from the newly crowned Pope, and the aging Chapel Master scrambles to finish a composition worthy of performing for the occasion. In the chaos of these preparations, Teresa discovers a strange and beautiful invention in the school storeroom – a pianoforte. With a near supernatural ear for harmony, the servant and a quartet of talented singers use the radical new instrument to compose a piece the Pope – and the world – never saw coming.

“A true crowd-pleaser” (Screen Daily), Gloria! is the directorial debut of Italian actress and singer-songwriter Margherita Vicario. Made with a modern flare and clever musical anachronism, Vicario turns the historical drama on its head and pays joyous tribute to the imagination and brilliance of countless female composers throughout history whose work was quietly shelved and forgotten.

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