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Marion Cotillard’s Joan of Arc descends the rabbit hole in Honegger’s surrealist oratorio

By Jacob Slattery, 12 June 2015
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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, New York City on 10 June 2015
Programme
Honegger, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake), H99
Performers
Alan Gilbert, Conductor
Côme de Bellescize, Director
Simone Osborne, Marguerite
Erin Morley, Virgin Mary
Faith Sherman, Catherine
Christian Gonon, Narrator
Marion Cotillard, Jeanne d'Arc
Thomas Blondelle, Porcus
Steven Humes, Herald
Éric Génovèse, Frère Dominique
New York Philharmonic
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
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Jacob Slattery
Jacob Slattery
Jacob is a musician and raconteur based out of New York City. As a writer, he operates an online arts and culture blog with the goal of providing momentum for community-based arts projects in NYC. As an oboist, Jacob has performed internationally with orchestras from Vienna to Seoul. Born and raised in the lake-ridden, gopher empire of Minnesota, Jacob received a dual-degree in Music Performance and Marketing from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. His blog can be found here.