Name: Dialogues des Carmélites
Start: 2022-11-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Corbett Center for the Performing Arts

Artist

Admin

Conductor

Christopher Larkin

Stage director

Robin Guarino

Set designer

Mark Halpin

Costume designer

Iris Harmon

Sound designer

Alena Milos

Repetiteur

Marie-France Lefebvre

Lighting designer

Alaina Pizzoferrato

Bass-baritone

Erik Nordstrom

The Marquis de la Force

Tenor

Aaron McKone

The cavalier de la Force

Manfred Anaya

Soprano

Gabrielle Turgeon

Blanche de la Force

Malone Blaich

Baritone

Patrick Kelly

Thierry

Contralto

Kendra F. Beasley

Madame de Croissy

Salleigh Harvey

Candace Williams

Sister Constance of St. Denis

Ashlyn Rock

Mezzo-soprano

Tess Klibanoff

Mother Marie of the Incarnation

Ariana Maubach

Joseph O'Shea

M. Javelino

Felicity Tomkins

Madame Lidoine

Saane Halaholo

Isabel Lee

Mother Jeanne of the Holy Child Jesus

Rachael Bell

Sister Mathilde

Logan Wagner

Chaplain of the convent

Alex Gushrowski

Tristan Tournaud

First commissioner

Carlos Ahrens

John Potvin

Second commissioner

Bass

Will Ryan

An officer

Nathan Schludecker

The jailer

Video designer

Jessica Drayton

Choreographer

Susan Moser

Assistant Conductor

Pablo Martínez Pegalajar

Singer

Hyein Hong

Mother Gerald

Jaeyoon Choi

Sister Claire

Natalia Adame

Sister Antoine

Lauryn Davis

Sister Catherine

Maren Hrivnak

Sister Felicity

Junyue Gong

Sister Gertrude

Grace Graham

Sister Alice

Ahhyun Baek

Sister Valentine

Olivia Knutsen

Sister Anne of the Cross

Sarah Scofield

Sister Martha

Holly Thiemann

Sister St. Charles

Orchestra

CCM Philharmonia

Others

Chorus of Citizens and Officers

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Fraincis

Dialogues des Carmélites -  (Dialogues of the Carmelites)

Cincinnati

United States

Corbett Center for the Performing Arts

Corbett Auditorium

Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc) CCM

Public

Opera

Dialogues of the Carmelites

Béarla

Approved

Photography: Mark Lyons
(Featured Cast in Production Photos: 19th November)

Dialogues des Carmélites Poulenc

The UC College-Conservatory of Music opens its 2022-23 Opera Series with Francis Poulenc’s 1953 masterpiece, Dialogues of the Carmelites. One of the most revered operas of the 20th-century, this profound drama runs November 18-20 in CCM’s Corbett Auditorium. Guest artist Christopher Larkin conducts with stage direction by CCM Professor Robin Guarino. Tickets are on sale now through the CCM Box Office.



Based on the true story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, the opera follows the fictional aristocrat Blanche de la Force as she seeks refuge and purpose in a Carmelite convent during the French Revolution. However, the political tumult outside the cloistered community proves unavoidable, and Blanche and the other Carmelites are forced to grapple with their faith in the face of persecution and death. 

The libretto, adapted from a play by Georges Bernanos, is structured in a series of 12 scenes. Rather than following a traditional sequence of arias and ensembles, the characters converse with one another in melodies and rhythms which are at once lyrical and speech-like. This approach highlights the hauntingly beautiful choral sections, in which the voices of the convent evoke religious hymns and chants.

Though framed within a highly dramatic scenario, the music and libretto work together to tell the harrowing story in a deeply human way. Within Poulenc’s distinct musical language, the characters wrestle with complex psychological and philosophical ideas: faith, duty, grace, and ultimately, martyrdom.

Dialogues of the Carmelites' estimated runtime is three hours and 6 minutes with an intermission. The opera will be sung in French with English supertitles.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble