Francis Poulenc's opera, Dialogues des Carmélites, is a blistering portraying of the martyrdom of several Carmelite nuns living in Paris who were guillotined for not renouncing their faith during the ...

Last performed at Juilliard in 2001, Dialouges of the Carmelites is a work gaining currency as one of the masterpieces of the 20th-century repertoire; relatively conservative in its harmonic language ...

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 ...

Watch John Dexter’s production of the Poulenc classic about the power of faith, starring Isabel Leonard as Blanche and Karita Mattila as the Prioress. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. John Dexter’s ...

Powerful tragic endings are par for the course in opera, but Francis Poulenc’s 1956 masterpiece, “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” takes the shocking, moving aspects of its ending to an almost unbearable ...

Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites is a true one-off, an uneasy, sometimes queasy mixture of the sensual and the spiritual. Before the lights go down, it's easy to be flippant about an opera that ends ...

In 1794, a group of Carmelite nuns and lay sisters were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their order and its monastic vows. Their story became the basis for a novel, a play, and finally ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Just over 30 years ago, when Poulenc’s opera was last given at Covent Garden, the great French soprano Régine Crespin ...

I had misgivings as to the wisdom of presenting Poulenc’s masterpiece at a country-house opera festival: how would something so intensely harrowing, so focused on our deepest fears and loneliest ...