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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Based on the true story of an order of Carmelite nuns who faced execution by ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On Wednesday, April 21 at 8:00pm conductor Anne Manson will lead the Juilliard ...

Make no mistake, there is much about “Dialogues of the Carmelites” that requires intense audience engagement. Francis Poulenc’s shattering 1956 score is not light entertainment by any means, as the ...

On July 17, 1794, 16 Carmelite nuns paid the ultimate price for their faith during the Reign of Terror. A century and a half later, Francis Poulenc wrote his opera ...

Friday through May 5 Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University Many operas deliver an emotional wallop, but few end with the shattering blow of "Dialogues of the Carmelites." Based on the ...

We’re used to tragic opera endings, where the heroine doesn’t get the prince charming and things don’t go so well. And then there’s Francis Poulenc’s 1956 drama “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” We won’t ...

Christine Goerke has been to the graves in Paris — the last resting place for the nuns who were beheaded during the French Revolution because, as it turns out, it wasn’t only the rich who had much to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page By Joshua Barone When Yannick Nézet-Séguin learned a few years ago that he would be the next music director of the Metropolitan Opera ...

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 ...