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The French actress Marion Cotillard will play the title role of the dramatic oratorio

Joan of Arc at the stake

(

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

) by Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), with

stage direction by Àlex Ollé

, from La Fura dels Baus, in eight performances at the Teatro Real

from June 7 to 17

.

This work, which premiered in Spain in 1954 at the Liceu in Barcelona with Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc and Roberto Rossellini directing the stage,

needs a great actress as the protagonist

since her performance is the backbone of this entire unclassifiable work, both from the From a formal and musical point of view, he points out the Madrid Coliseum in a note.

The

Oscar

-winning French actress Marion Cotillard already played this role at the Teatro Real in 2015, also by La Fura and with the musical direction then by Josep Pons (this time Juanjo Mena takes over).

The dramatic oratorio (a type of work that normally does not have staging, costumes or sets) has

a libretto by Paul Claudel

(1868-1955) and is a new co-production of the Royal Theater and the Frankfurt Opera.

Based on Paul Claudel's brutal, ghostly and symbolic "stage poem", Honegger 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 drama that claims patriotism, justice and freedom.

Cotillard

will perform alongside actor Sébastien Dutrieux

(Father Dominique), sopranos Sylvia Schwartz (the virgin) and Elena Copons (Marguerite), mezzo-soprano Enkelejda Shkoza (Catherine), tenor Charles Workman (Porcus), bass-baritone Torben Jügens ( Heraldo), the Principal Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro Real and the little singers of the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid (JORCAM).

The work will be preceded by the cantata

La damoiselle elue

(

The Blessed Maiden

), by Claude

Debussy

(1862-1918) to a libretto by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, starring soprano Camilla Tilling and mezzo-soprano Enkelejda Shkosa.

The eight functions will take place on June 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17.

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