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Composed by Arthur Honegger to a libretto by Paul Claudel, the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher was recorded last July at the Montpellier National Opera. For the occasion, Don Kent introduces us to the work, with observations from director Jean-Paul Scarpitta, conductor Alain Altinoglu, and actor Sylvie Testud who plays Jeanne. They enlighten us as to their respective contributions to the work, its merging of theater and opera, its symbolic import. The fruit of an outstanding collaboration between the composer and the poet, the oratorio, completed in 1945 in a devastated France, took on a prophetic dimension. Jeanne again becomes the young girl who leads the armies of France into combat, in the face of death. Extending the symbolic opposition between light and darkness that underlines Scarpitta's staging, Don Kent contributes to our understanding of this work of total theater.

France - 2006 - 1 h 01 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Don Kent Camera Jacques Audrain Sound Philippe Grangier Editing Arnaud Petitet Cast Sylvie Testud, Eric Ruf, Mélanie Boisvert, Isabelle Cals, Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Production Cinétévé, 4, quai des Célestins, 75004 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4804 9609 Fax : +33 (0)1 4804 7038 E-mail : l.miller@cineteve.fr Co-Production Opéra national de Montpellier with the  participation of ARTE France

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