Original Name Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Librettist Paul Claudel
Date of composition 1944
Premiered 1938, May 12th in Basel, Switzerland
Dedicated to Commissioned by Ida Rubinstein
Type Oratorio
Catalogue H 99
Approx. duration 75 minutes
Spoken language French
Instruments Orchestra
12x Narrator, Recitant, Speaker - Jeanne d'Arc, Frère Dominique, Le Récitant, La Mère aux Tonneaux, L'Appariteur, Héraut III, Un Prêtre, Le Duc de Bedford, Jean de Luxembourg, Renault de Chartres, Guillaume de Flavy
Voice (Soprano) - La Vierge (Virgin Mary)
Voice (Soprano) - Marguerite (St Marguerite)
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Catherine (St Catherine)
Voice (Tenor) - Porcus
Voice (Tenor) - Heurtebise, Clerk
Voice (Bass) - Second herald/Third voice
Voice (Tenor) - Second voice/First herald
Autotranslations beta Arthur Honegger: Joan of Arc at the Stake, H 99
Arthur Honegger: Joan of Arc at the Stake, H 99
Arthur Honegger: Joan of Arc at the Stake, H 99