Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the final Met Opera broadcast of the season, Francis Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom, Dialogues des Carmélites. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the ...
Poulenc's music is almost hard to believe; romantic without sweetness, contemporary without alienating, and among the extraordinary composers repertoire this epic opera stands out as a remarkable ...
Glimmerglass and the New York City Opera have a hit on their hands with this radiant production of Poulenc's 1957 "Dialogues of the Carmelites." It more than atones for the NYCO's unfortunate 1966 ...
In a taut, new production of Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" — an opera last performed by Eastman Opera Theatre in 2004 — the cast and orchestra alike shone Friday night in a ...
Paul Corona performs as Javelinot, Karita Mattila as Mme. de Croissy and Karin Cargill as Mere Marie in Dialogues des Carmelites. Some operas inspire reverence beyond who gets kissed and who gets ...
Long after they ceased being of interest to anyone else, French musical artists of the mid-20th century were obsessed with issues of Catholic faith. The nature of martyrdom; the relationship of grace ...
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 ...
When Bastille Day comes around each summer on July 14, I just can’t bring myself to pop the cork on a bottle of Champagne-style California sparkling wine (the kind I can afford). The Fête Nationale ...
It was a fitting prelude to an opera about the intrusion of the outside world on a sanctuary of nuns. The walkway to the Long Center cast a gaze across thousands of heads bobbing in rhythm to the ...
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