Catholic Group Tries To Shut Down Brussels Opera Production With Nude Joan Of Arc
The Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium's national opera house, is presenting a staging of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) by provocative director Romeo Castellucci in which the Maid of Orléans is shown, in extremis, unclothed. A group called the Pro Europa Christiana Federation has petitioned both La Monnaie's […]