Name: Dialogues des Carmélites
Start: 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2010-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Nationaltheater

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Kent Nagano

Regia

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Scenografia

Costumi

Elena Zaitseva

Luci

Gleb Filshtinsky

Direzione del coro

Andrés Máspero

Basso-baritono

Alain Vernhes

Il Marchese de la Force

Tenore

Bernard Richter

Il Cavaliere de la Force

Soprano

Susan Gritton

Bianca

Contralto

Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

Madame de Croissy

Hélène Guilmette

Suor Costanza

Mezzosoprano

Susanne Resmark

Madre Maria

Soile Isokoski

Madame Lidoine

Heike Grötzinger

Madre Giovanna

Anaïk Morel

Suor Matilde

Kevin Conners

Le père confesseur du couvent

Ulrich Reß

Primo commissario

Baritono

John Chest

Secondo commissario

Basso

Christian Rieger

Un ufficiale

Levente Molnár

Il carceriere

Rüdiger Trebes

Thierry

Oscar Quezada

Dottor Javelinot

Drammaturgia

Andrea Schönhofer

Bayerische Staatsoper

francese

Dialogues des Carmélites -  (I dialoghi delle carmelitane)

Monaco di Baviera

Germania

Nationaltheater

Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper München

Rife with historical references, Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites is a 20th-century opera masterpiece and an insightful exploration of wide-reaching themes: life, death, honor, and religion. In 1789, at the beginning of French Revolution, Blanche de la Force—daughter of a nobleman—senses the rising wave of anti-aristocratic sentiment and decides to become a nun, hoping to find safety in the convent. After their prioress dies, the whole convent—including the new Sister Blanche of the Agony of Christ—take a vow of martyrdom and, when sentenced to death, resign themselves to their fate, singing the moving "Salve Regina" as they march to the guillotine.

Visionary Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov, winner of four Golden Mask awards for Best Director, transposes Poulenc's opera into a Soviet context, with sparse and unadorned scenography and a stellar cast that includes Susan Gritton as Sister Blanche and Bernard Richter as her brother, the Chevalier de la Force. Under the baton of the great Kent Nagano, the Orchestra and Choir of the Bayerische Staatsoper bring out the poetry in Poulenc's opera, with its "subtle and intricate tonal language [that] is by turns hymnal and haunting" (Anthony Tommasini).

This staging went all the way to France's highest civil court: the director Dmitri Tcherniakov reinterpreted the ending, leading Francis Poulenc's heirs to claim that he had distorted its core message. Yet even without the scandal, this staging of the opera is an absolute must see. The Bavarian State Orchestra give an enchanting performance.

Dialogues des Carmelites
Opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
Libretto by Francis Poulenc after the play by Georges Bernanos
Premiere in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, January 26, 1957

Recording: January 1, 2010 - Bayerische Staatsoper I Munich
Director: Andy Sommer
Duration: 02:32

Dialogues des Carmélites Poulenc

Public

I dialoghi delle carmelitane

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