JEANNE D’ARC
TicketsSort/Hvid goes to electronic war with Joan of Arc in a new, radical opera about the iconic female army commander.
In a time when Europe is shaken by war, we melt together the icon Joan of Arc, our present time’s stories about the call of war, digital warfare, and radical power structures. On stage we find opera singers, modern dancers, and live music, in a deconstruction of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Giovanna D’Arco from 1845, by composer and sound artist Søs Gunver Ryberg. Staged by director Anja Behrens and scenographer Nathalie Mellbye, Jeanne d’arc becomes a musically carnal grip with an uncomfortable question, one which we all might have to answer in a near future: will you go to war for justice?
Joan of Arc, the virgin-maid of Orleans, was a French 13 year-old peasant girl (1412-1431), who lead the French army to victory in the war against England. A young person called by war. The reward for her heroic deed was an untimely death, burned at the stake for heresy. Later, she was declared a saint, and is today used as a symbol of freedom in religion as well as far-right politics.
Søs Gunver Ryberg creates new electronic compositions modelled on Verdi. The music is performed live by multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Colombo in a raw, physical opera, that raises questions about our moral compass and visions in a time ravaged by war.
JEANNE D’ARC
TicketsSort/Hvid goes to electronic war with Joan of Arc in a new, radical opera about the iconic female army commander.
In a time when Europe is shaken by war, we melt together the icon Joan of Arc, our present time’s stories about the call of war, digital warfare, and radical power structures. On stage we find opera singers, modern dancers, and live music, in a deconstruction of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Giovanna D’Arco from 1845, by composer and sound artist Søs Gunver Ryberg. Staged by director Anja Behrens and scenographer Nathalie Mellbye, Jeanne d’arc becomes a musically carnal grip with an uncomfortable question, one which we all might have to answer in a near future: will you go to war for justice?
Joan of Arc, the virgin-maid of Orleans, was a French 13 year-old peasant girl (1412-1431), who lead the French army to victory in the war against England. A young person called by war. The reward for her heroic deed was an untimely death, burned at the stake for heresy. Later, she was declared a saint, and is today used as a symbol of freedom in religion as well as far-right politics.
Søs Gunver Ryberg creates new electronic compositions modelled on Verdi. The music is performed live by multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Colombo in a raw, physical opera, that raises questions about our moral compass and visions in a time ravaged by war.