Joan of Arc at the Stake – review

Barbican, LondonArthur Honegger's dramatic oratorio formed the opening gesture in what the London Symphony Orchestra called its Joan of Arc weekend, with Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, written as a score to Carl Dreyer's film The Passion of Joan of Arc, the other main event.Commissioned by the dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein and first performed in 1938, Honegger's work seems to have lost some of its shine over the years. Less a narrative than a consideration of Joan's life and deat...

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