"When I made Joan of Arc at the stake, I stepped through the guidance of Paul Claudel. We walked hand in hand, working to the same purpose, which was to write a popular book. Popular in the beautiful sense. "(1) Since its creation in Basel, in 1938, the oratorio by Arthur Honegger was a huge success, never wavered. It also popular "in the best sense of the term," Marion Cotillard resumes for the second time in Barcelona this 2012 production, the role created by Ida Rubinstein, commissioned the work. Clear of pathos, his Jeanne also proves just as touching. Under the direction of Chef soberly inhabited Marc Soustrot, actors and singers convey the same humanity, the shivering brother Dominique Xavier Gallais at Bishop Cauchon truculent tenor Yann Beuron. Only the Virgin Maria Hinojosa lost his consoling task by his rough and forced treble. The bonus DVD compared to CD? The realization of Jean-Pierre Loisil it re-dramatizes what is "just a" concert version, fervor actors communicate more easily there, and we will (re) discover the ondes Martenot sound beyond the world, capable of figuring both a dog howling in the night that ascent to heaven.
