Name: Dialogues des Carmélites
Start: 2019-05-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Admin

Organization

Zanger

Bass-baritone

Jean-François Lapointe

Marquis de la Force

Tenor

David Portillo

Chevalier de La Force

Soprano

Isabel Leonard

Blanche de La Force

Baritone

Eduardo Valdes

Thierry

Contralto

Karita Mattila

Madame de Croissy

Erin Morley

Sœur Constance de Saint-Denis

Mezzo-soprano

Karen Cargill

Mère Marie de L'incarnation

Paul Corona

M. Javelinot

Adrianne Pieczonka

Madame Lidoine

Tichina Vaughn

Mère Jeanne de l'Enfant-Jésus

Emily D'Angelo

Sœur Mathilde

Tony Stevenson

Le père confesseur du couvent

Scott Scully

Premier Commissaire

Richard Bernstein

Deuxième Commissaire

Patrick Carfizzi

Le geôlier

Dirigent

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Regisseur

John Dexter

David Kneuss

Set designer

David Reppa

Kostuum ontwerper

Jane Greenwood

Licht ontwerper

Gil Wechsler

The Metropolitan Opera

Dialogues des Carmélites

New York

Verenigde Staten

Metropolitan Opera House

Ever since John Dexter’s striking production marked the company premiere of Dialogues des Carmélites in 1977, Poulenc’s devastating masterpiece has been a favorite of Met audiences. To close out the 2018–19 season, Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led a starry revival of the opera, which was also included as part of the Live in HD series of cinema transmissions. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard is the fearful Blanche de la Force, who joins a convent of Carmelite nuns in order to escape the terrors of the French Revolution. The exceptional cast also features sopranos Erin Morley and Adrianne Pieczonka and mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as some of Blanche’s fellow sisters, with tenor David Portillo as the protective Chevalier de la Force. Maestro Nézet-Séguin leads a gripping performance throughout—from the opera’s chaotic first bars to the chilling death scene of Madame de Croissy (sung by the incomparable Karita Mattila) to the work’s harrowing final moments.

Dialogues des Carmélites Poulenc

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