Company

Singer

Soprano

Camilla Tilling

Sylvia Schwartz

The Virgin

Elena Copons

Marguerite

Mezzo-soprano

Enkelejda Shkosa

Catherine

Spoken

Sébastien Dutrieux

Brother Dominic

Charles Workman

Porcus

Tenor

Torben Jürgens

1.Herald

Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Oper Frankfurt

Madrid

Spain

Teatro Real de Madrid

Juanjo Mena

Conductor

Stage director

Alex Ollé

Orchestra

Choir

Set designer

Alfons Flores

Costume designer

Lluc Castells

Lighting designer

Joachim Klein

Video designer

Franc Aleu

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Teatro Real

Sala Principal

Coro Titular del Teatro Real

Pequeños Cantores de la Comunidad de Madrid

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

French

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher - Joan of Arc at the Stake

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher Honegger (+1 More)

Public

Opera

Joan of Arc at the Stake

The Blessed Damozel

Spanish

English

Approved

Oratorio / Orchestral

The adoration of the celestial lady and the fanatical mob setting a woman accused of witchcraft at the stake constitute the extremes of the medieval representation of the feminine that unifies this stimulating double program. There is no shortage of connections between the two works, because even when both deny the title of "opera" - we are dealing with a symbolist cantata in Debussy's case and a dramatic oratorio in Honegger's - they were composed with Wagner in mind. On the one hand, a young Debussy capable of playing the piano from memory Tristan und Isolde, before renouncing the spell of the "old wizard" in Pelléas et Mélisande. On the other, a Honegger at the peak of his career, fascinated - as well as his librettist Paul Claudel - by the Wagnerian concept of "total work of art", but ready to reach it with totally new wickers.

With contrasting and perfectly complementary durations and musical and dramatic registers, La damoiselle élue shines like a stained glass window by Fra Angelico, while the modal coloring, the polytonal aggregates and the phantasmagoric timbre of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher's Martenot waves seem to reflect its light. on the stone walls.

Joan of Arc at the Stake by Arthur Honegger, The Blessed Damozel by Claude Debussy, From Teatro Real de Madrid (2022/2022), Directed by Alex Ollé,, Conductor Juanjo Mena

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Teatro Real de Madrid

Juanjo Mena

Alex Ollé

Cast

Sylvia Schwartz

Elena Copons

Enkelejda Shkosa

Sébastien Dutrieux

Charles Workman

Torben Jürgens

Crew

Alfons Flores

Lluc Castells

Joachim Klein

Franc Aleu

Andrés Máspero

Ensemble

Coro Titular del Teatro Real

Pequeños Cantores de la Comunidad de Madrid

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

Co-Producer

Oper Frankfurt

Program, About & Synopsis

Photos 1

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues 8