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Bass-baritone

Nicolas Cavallier

The Marquis de la Force

Soprano

Patricia Petibon

Blanche de la Force

Anne-Catherine Gillet

Tenor

Stanislas de Barbeyrac

The cavalier de la Force

Guy de Mey

Chaplain of the convent

Baritone

Nabil Suliman

The jailer

Thierry

M. Javelino

Contralto

Sophie Pondjiclis

Madame de Croissy

Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

Véronique Gens

Madame Lidoine

Marie-Adeline Henry

Mezzo-soprano

Sophie Koch

Mother Marie of the Incarnation

Karine Deshayes

Sandrine Piau

Sister Constance of St. Denis

Hendrickje Van Kerckhove

Mireille Capelle

Mother Jeanne of the Holy Child Jesus

Angélique Noldus

Sister Mathilde

Yves Saelens

First commissioner

Arnaud Richard

Second commissioner

Conductor

Alain Altinoglu

Stage director

Olivier Py

Set designer

Pierre-André Weitz

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Bertrand Killy

Chorus master

Martino Faggiani

La Monnaie/De Munt

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

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La Monnaie Chorus

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La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

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Dialogues des Carmélites -  (Dialogues of the Carmelites)

Brussels

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La Monnaie

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Dialogues of the Carmelites

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Dialogues des Carmélites Poulenc

Du 8 au 23 décembre 2017 à la Monnaie-- https://www.lamonnaie.be/fr/program/426-dialogues-des-carmelitesDISTRIBUTIONDirection musicale ALAIN ALTINOGLUMise en...

Discovering Francis Poulenc's masterpiece: meeting with Alain Altinoglu.

‘We are not afraid: we imagine we are afraid. Fear is a delusion sent by the devil.’ In his screenplay Dialogues des Carmélites, later adapted for the stage, Georges Bernanos tells the tragic story of the nuns of a Carmelite convent who, during the Terror following the French Revolution, live in hope and fear under the constant threat of the guillotine. Francis Poulenc’s mystical opera is an outlier in his œuvre: its dramatic main theme and traditional tonal language show the influence of Musorgsky, Monteverdi, Debussy, and Verdi. Alain Altinoglu’s musical interpretation and Olivier Py’s pared-down, ascetic directing, acclaimed in Paris in 2013, make of this work a profound reflection on death, fear, and the will to live. ‘We do not die each for ourselves, but one for the other, or even one in place of the other, who knows?’

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