Raymond Aceto’s well-seasoned bass boomed imposingly for the pompous Marquis de la Force, father of Blanche and the Chevalier ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The opera tells the harrowing true story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, a convent of ...

They inspired Francis Poulenc’s 1956 opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” Opera Theatre of St. Louis will open its first production of Poulenc’s masterpiece on Wednesday. The cast includes sopranos ...

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 ...

The conversations at the heart of Francis Poulenc’s opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites” are between 18th- century French nuns, family and government officials as they contemplate martyrdom for their ...

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Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

We’re used to tragic opera endings, where the heroine doesn’t get the prince charming and things don’t go so well. And then there’s Francis Poulenc’s 1956 drama “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” We won’t ...

Drawn from a true incident of piety during the Terror that followed the French Revolution, Poulenc’s opera is a tale (he wrote his own libretto) upon a tale (the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The French Revolution is at its most brutal. Looking for meaning in the ...

We’re used to tragic opera endings, where the heroine doesn’t get the prince charming and things don’t go so well. And then there’s Francis Poulenc’s 1956 drama “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” We won’t ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.