At the end of 2013, the year that marked the 50th anniversary of Francis Poulenc’s death, his gripping and moving operatic masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites was staged in Paris by director Olivier ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts an early rehearsal for the Met Opera’s production “Dialogues des Carmélites.” Working with the cast, Yannick explores the meaning of the song “Ave Maria” and what the ...

In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc’s only full-length opera, which tells the story of a group of nuns caught in ...

The Prioress (Karita Mattila) refuses the help of the doctor (Paul Corona) so she may speak to Sister Blanche (Isabel Leonard). Ken Howard / Met Opera As the decades have passed since this ...

An opera about a group of Carmelite nuns who went to the guillotine during the French Revolution would hardly seem to be relevant to contemporary concerns. But with the terrorist attacks of 2001 still ...

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Scenographer takis, director Martin Lloyd-Evans, and lighting designer Robbie Butler have made a production which concentrates the audience’s attention on the characters and on the text. The scenery ...

Perhaps it was a question of space, both visual and aural. The musical space I'd regard as the cumulative inward glow of this often very meditative and outwardly uneventful score. Clive Timms ...

Yannick conducts an early rehearsal for the Met's production of "Dialogues des Carmélites" Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts an early rehearsal for the Met Opera's production "Dialogues des Carmélites." ...

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