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 ...

San Francisco Opera has released production photos of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelties (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the War Memorial Opera House, running October 15-30. Caroline H. Hume ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The biggest cast ever seen at the Royal Opera House are taking to the stage. The 167-strong troupe is made up of 14 principals, 60 chorus, 26 actors and 67 others, who are collectively known as the ...