The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc
Silent Film & Medieval Sound by The Orlando Consort

Matthew Venner, countertenor
Mark Dobell, tenor
Angus Smith, tenor
Donald Greig, baritone
Robert Macdonald, bass

Eclectic Orange Series sponsored by Judith and Howard Jelinek
with additional support from Bette and Wylie Aitken

Pre-concert lecture by Jean Drum, 7pm

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Film by Carl Theodor Dreyer

One of Britain’s leading Medieval and Renaissance vocal ensembles, The Orlando Consort creates a stunning live soundtrack to Carl Theodor Dreyer’s monumental 1928 silent film biography of the saint and martyr. “Our version is…the first entirely a cappella soundtrack, a particularly appropriate mode of expression given that voices instructed the proto-feminist French saint,” explains baritone Donald Greig.

Hear medieval songs composed during the lifetime of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) sung in live accompaniment to the silver screen.