JEANNE D’ARC
TicketsSort/Hvid goes to electronic war with Joan of Arc in a new, radical opera about the iconic female army commander.
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. The original Italian opera is mixed with new electronic compositions, live percussion and Danish text written by poets, activists and playwrights: Elias Sadaq, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Manilla Ghafuri, Mycelium and Alexandra Moltke Johansen.
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 acoustic and electronic compositions that dissolve and reconstruct Verdi’s work in a contemporary context. Parts of the music are performed live by musician Lorenzo Colombo in a raw and physical opera that questions our moral compass and visions in a time marked by war.
Jeanne d'Arc
JEANNE D’ARC
TicketsSort/Hvid goes to electronic war with Joan of Arc in a new, radical opera about the iconic female army commander.
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. The original Italian opera is mixed with new electronic compositions, live percussion and Danish text written by poets, activists and playwrights: Elias Sadaq, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Manilla Ghafuri, Mycelium and Alexandra Moltke Johansen.
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 acoustic and electronic compositions that dissolve and reconstruct Verdi’s work in a contemporary context. Parts of the music are performed live by musician Lorenzo Colombo in a raw and physical opera that questions our moral compass and visions in a time marked by war.
Jeanne d'Arc