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Joan laid bare and buried: Romeo Castellucci has done with the era of appropriations of the mythical figure

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“by her superb performance, allows us to discover the spirituality of the realism and of the bareness”
Reviewed at Opéra Nouvel, Lyon on 3 February 2017
Honegger, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake), H99
Opéra de Lyon
Kazushi Ono, Conductor
Romeo Castellucci, Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Audrey Bonnet, Jeanne d'Arc
Ilse Eerens, Virgin Mary
Valentine Lemercier, Marguerite
Marie Karall, Catherine
Denis Podalydès, Frère Dominique
Jean-Noel Briend, Porcus
Paul-Henry Vila, Herald
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