Joseph Fiennes will play the eccentric priest and Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi in the biopic
Vivaldi, according to Variety.
Directed by Boris Damast from a script by journalist Steven Freedman. Freedman has spent more than two decades researching Vivaldi, whose most famous composition is "The Four Seasons."
Biopic follows the composer as a young priest assigned to serve as music master of a school for the abandoned, illegitimate daughters of Venice's courtesans. He bonds with the girls, which leads to his landing a concert of his music before the pope.