The CSUN Theatre Department performed their interpretation of Dialogues of the Carmelites from Nov. 21 to 24 in the Campus Theatre located in Nordhoff Hall. As the audience took their seats, they were ...

The conversations at the heart of Francis Poulenc’s opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites” are between 18th- century French nuns, family and government officials as they contemplate martyrdom for their ...

They inspired Francis Poulenc’s 1956 opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” Opera Theatre of St. Louis will open its first production of Poulenc’s masterpiece on Wednesday. The cast includes sopranos ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The opera tells the harrowing true story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, a convent of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The French Revolution is at its most brutal. Looking for meaning in the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The first time I heard Francis Poulenc’s opera “The Dialogues of the Carmelites,” it was in a live English-language radio ...

Drawn from a true incident of piety during the Terror that followed the French Revolution, Poulenc’s opera is a tale (he wrote his own libretto) upon a tale (the ...

Fear eats the soul: the end of Poulenc's Act 2 in Barrie Kosky's stagingAll images by Richard Hubert Smith Guiding us through the bewilderments is Robin Ticciati, alert to every shift of colour in ...

It’s no spoiler to say that “Dialogues of the Carmelites” doesn’t end well. The story is true, or at least based in fact: A group of nuns during the French Revolution refused to disband and paid the ...

Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music, dance, comedy and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information. Theatre Three: Goblin Market, today-Dec. 7 in ...