Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard It will go up next June to the stage of the Teatro Real, where it will play the title role of the dramatic oratorio ‘Joan of Arc at the stake’from Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) and libretto by Paul Claudel (1868-1955). This new co-production of the Madrid Coliseum and the Frankfurt Opera, directed by Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus), will premiere on June 7.
Cotillard will perform alongside actor Sébastien Dutrieux (Father Dominique), the sopranos Sylvia Schwartz (The Virgin) and Elena Copons (Marguerite), the mezzo-soprano Enkelejda Shkoza (Catherine), the tenor Charles Workman (Porcus), the bass-baritone Torben Jügens (Heraldo), the Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro Real and the Little Singers of JORCAM, under the musical direction of Juanjo Mena, as the Madrid Coliseum advances in a statement.
Honegger’s oratorio will be preceded by the cantata ‘The chosen damsel’ (La Doncella bienaventurada), by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to a libretto by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, starring the soprano Camilla Tilling and the mezzo-soprano Enkelejda Shkosa.
TAKES OVER FROM INGRID BERGMAN IN 1954 AT THE LICEU
The work, whose premiere in Spain in 1954, at the Liceu in Barcelona, featured Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc and Roberto Rossellini as stage directorneeds a great actress as the protagonist, since her performance is the backbone of this unclassifiable work, both from a formal and musical point of view.
About him brutal, ghostly and symbolic ‘stage poem’ by Paul ClaudelHonegger created a score that is an eclectic mosaic of influences, from counterpoint to jazz, from folklore to martenot waves, with a very rich and original orchestration at the service of a dramaturgy that vindicates patriotism, justice and freedom.
The eight functions planned will take place on June 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17.