Takarazuka Flower Troupe 2001 performance. In the sixteenth century, at the Villa Medici in Rome, the nobles, ecclesiastics and artists invited to a banquet congratulate Giovanni de' Medici on his promised accession to the Holy See for the next term. Contessina, Giovanni's younger sister talks to Raphaello eminent for most beautifully portraying women. Knowing that he has come to Rome to see Michelangelo's Pieta`, she admiringly speaks of Michlangelo as a man of eternal burning passion.
as Michelangelo Buonarroti
as Contessina de' Medeci
as Giuliano Bugiardi
as Mendolini
as Julius II
as Giovanni Cardinal Medici
as Carla
as Clarice
as Cardinal Glorice
as Raphaello Sanzio
as Ascanio Condivi