Joan of Arc saved from the ashes Creation of Viktor Ullmann and Hélios Azoulay
Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 7:30 pm
On the occasion of the release of the CD Le 30 mai 1431, Ensemble de musique incidental, 2016
Viktor Ullmann, sketch for „Der 30. Mai “(1943) in the score of „Don Quixote tanzt Fandango” (1944). © Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel, Viktor Ullmann Collection.
The great composer Viktor Ullmann, a pupil of Schoenberg, wrote at the Terezin ghetto camp the libretto of a forgotten opera that tells the story of Joan of Arc. If the libretto is complete, the music is tragically interrupted: only two pages which mean the departure of its author to Auschwitz, from where he will never return. The creation of Hélios Azoulay is based on this fragment of a score.
Work in two acts for string quartet, female voice and reciter.
In the presence of Hélios Azoulay, from the Ensemble de musique incidental with Teona Kharadze, Dimitri Maslennikov, Marielle Rubens, Pablo Schatzman and Baptiste Vay, and Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, author and translator.
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