Opera: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites
Friday Apr 15, 2022 @ 1:30 PM Central Time
Francis Poulenc‘s 1957 opera is a fictionalized account of the story of the Carmelite nuns who, in 1794, during the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation. The legendary 2004 production of the opera in Milan was conducted by Riccardo Muti, staged by Robert Carsen, and featured Dagmar Schellenberger, Anja Silja and Laura Aikin among the nuns who sing their way to the scaffold. (Sung in French with English subtitles, 149 minutes.)