DomStufen-Festspiele in Erfurt 2021
The peasant's daughter Joanna follows a divine sign and goes to fight for France against the English occupation. The young French heir to the throne, Charles, is weary of war when he learns of the victory won by the army under Joanna's leadership. In another battle, she spares the life of the enemy knight Lionel out of compassion and love, sensing that this will change her fate. At Charles's coronation, Joanna is still being celebrated as a savior when her father appears and accuses her of witchcraft. Abandoned by everyone, she is captured by enemy troops and sentenced to death at the stake.
Tchaikovsky himself wrote the libretto for his opera based on a Russian translation of Schiller. The conception was strongly influenced by great French opera, and thus, in this work, Tchaikovsky reveals less of his nationalist Russian side and more of a European-minded musical dramatist.
Premiere July 9, 2021
Cast
Johanna / Jeanne d’Arc (Иоанна д’Арк) / Anne Derouard, Anna Gichik, Eglė Šidlauskaitė
Karl VII. / Charles VII, König von Frankreich (Король) / Mikhail Agafonov, Brett Sprague
Agnes Sorel, seine Geliebte (Агнесса) / Jessica Rose Cambio, Daniela Gerstenmeyer
Dunois, französischer Ritter (Дюнуа) / Andreas Beinhauer, Ks. Máté Sólyom-Nagy
Lionel, burgundischer Ritter (Лионель) / Siyabulela Ntlale, Łukasz Skrobek
Erzbischof (Архиепископ) / Yuri Batukov, Caleb Yoo
Raimond, Johannas Bräutigam (Раймонд) / Richard Carlucci, Andreas Karasiak
Thibaut d’Arc, Johannas Vater (Тибо) / Yohan Kim, Kakhaber Shavidze
Bertrand, Landmann (Бертран) / Heiko Mauchel, Borislav Rashkov
Ein Soldat (Солдат) / Manuel Meyer, Dmitry Ryabchikov
Loré (Лоре) / Heiko Mauchel, Borislav Rashkov
Ein Engel (Ангел) / Nicole Enßle, Christine Greese-Besel
Die kleine Johanna / Paula Rieck, Anna Schreiber