Jeanne d'Arc, Scenes from the Life of St Joan: Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Don't miss an extraordinary theatrical event at the Deutsche Oper Berlin: Christoph Schlingensief's staging of Walter Braunfels' moving opera about the life and death of Joan of Arc.

Walter Braunfels’ opera was written between 1938 and 1942, years that the composer – ostracised and prevented from exercising his profession by the Nazis – spent in 'inner emigration' in Überlingen on the shores of Lake Constance. Schlingensief’s version of the Jeanne d’Arc opera is at once a reduction and an extension. Joan is not simply the virginal warrior in man's clothing who hears the voices of saints, helps her motherland triumph over English occupation and is later burnt at the stake as a witch and heretic. She is also a human being who lives and loves, who works, suffers and dies.

In German language with German surtitles

Conductor: Matthias Foremny
Idea, Conception: Christoph Schlingensief
Production‐Team: Anna‐Sophie Mahler, Carl Hegemann, Søren Schuhmacher
Stage design: Thomas Goerge, Thekla von Mülheim
Costume design:  Aino Laberenz
Costume‐ & stage‐design: Bernd Damovsky
Video: Kathrin Krottenthaler
Video Assistant: Konstantin Hapke
Childrens Chorus: Dagmar Fiebach
Chorus‐Conductor: William Spaulding

St. Michael: Paul McNamara
St. Catharina: Kathryn Lewek
St. Margarete: Rachel Hauge
Charles of Valois, King: Yosep Kang
Archbishop of Reims: Nathan De’Shon Myers
Cauchon, bishop of Beauvais: Peter Maus
Vicar Inquisitor: Simon Pauly
Jeanne d'Arc: Mary Mills
Jacobus of Arc: Tobias Kehrer
Colin: Paul Kaufmann
Gilles de Rais: Bastiaan Everink
Duke of Trémouille: Lenus Carlson
Duke of Alencon: Jörg Schörner
Chevalier Baudricourt: Seth Carico
Lison: Katarina Bradic
Bertrand de Poulengy: Clemens Bieber
Florent d'Illiers: Nathan De’Shon Myers
Page: Laura Borgwardt
Salisbury:  Nathan De’Shon Myers
Archpriest: N. N.
Dancer:  N. N.