Previously, the delicate face of the Swede Bergman (Casablanca) unfolded in her theatricality at the hands of her husband, the Italian director Roberto Rossellini, who took over the direction in 1954.
Now it’s up to the French Marion Cotillard, who will perform the dramatic oratorio Joan of Arc at the stake, which will premiere on June 7th at the Royal Theater in Madrid.
Winner of Oscar, BAFTA, César and Golden Globe for her leading role in La vie en rose (in the skin of Edith Piaf), she becomes the main character in the play Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher by Arthur Honegger ( 1892-1955) and libretto by Paul Claudel (1868-1955).
There are eight performances until June 17 in a new co-production with the Frankfurt Opera, which combines the cantata La damoiselle élue by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) with a libretto by the English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. and the oratory.
Cotillard (Un long dimanche de fiançailles, A Good Year, Public Enemies, Nine, Annette) leads the cast alongside actor Sébastien Dutrieux, sopranos Sylvia Schwartz and Elena Copons, mezzo-soprano Geländeejda Shkoza, tenor Charles Workman and bass-baritone Torben Jügens .
In La damoiselle élue by Debussy, soprano Camilla Tilling and mezzo-soprano Geländeejda Shkosa play.
Being an unclassifiable production, the presence of a relevant actress is essential for the recreation of Claudel’s “brutal, haunted and symbolic poem, for which Honegger created a score that is an eclectic mosaic of influences, from counterpoint to jazz, from folklore to Ondas Martenot, pointed out the Teatro Real.
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