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Dialogues des Carmélites
Title
Dialogues des Carmélites / Francis Poulenc.
Publication
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1987]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 49 min., 57 sec.)) : sound, color
Local Notes
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Notes
Director, John Dexter.
Sung in English; English subtitles.
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Summary
In this legendary production, director John Dexter and designer David Reppa brilliantly captured the stark drama of Poulenc's only full-length opera, which tells the story of a group of nuns caught in the maelstrom of the French Revolution. Maria Ewing is Blanche de la Force, an aristocratic novice who flees her convent when it is desecrated, only to return and join her fellow nuns as they are led to their execution. The legendary Régine Crespin, in her final Met appearance, is Madame de Croissy, the prioress whose agonizing death haunts Blanche. Jessye Norman sings Mother Lidoine, the new prioress, and Florence Quivar is the comforting Mother Marie. French maestro Manuel Rosenthal conducts.
Variant and related titles
Met opera on demand OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2024
Credits
Director, John Dexter.
Performers
Maria Ewing, Jessye Norman, Betsy Norden, Régine Crespin, Florence Quivar ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Manuel Rosenthal, conductor.
Contents
Opening credits
Where is Blanche?
Just in time the soldiers arrived
Blanche, your brother has been most impatient for your return
Her imagination flys from one extreme to another
My dear, I am very glad to see it was nothing
Prelude (Scene 2)
Do not believe this armchair is mine
I see the formidable rules of our order do not seem to frighten you
You are crying?
Prelude (Scene 3)
Again? All these awful lentils?
Oh, dear sister
Prelude (Scene 4)
Would you be so kind as to raise my pillow?
It seems to me that Blanche de la Force is considerably late
I pray you rise, my daughter
Monsieur Javelinot
Mother Marie of the Incarnation
Qui Lazarum resuscitasti a monumento foetidum
Where are you? It's your turn to be watching.
Interlude: Dear Sister, I find that our cross is much too elaborate
My dearest daughters
What the future holds in store
Ave Maria
Interlude: What is going on?
Prelude (Scene 3)
But why do you not answer me?
Oh, do not leave me so, with a goodbye said in anger
Prelude (Scene 4)
My faithful daughters
But what will become of you?
Someone is ringing the bell
My sisters, our Reverend Mother is coming to say goodbye to us all
Prelude
Father, speak to them
Interlude: Fellow citizens, we congratulate you all
Prelude (Scene 2)
It's you!
Interlude
My Daughters, we have almost come to the end of our first night in prison
The tribunal of the Revolution
My Daughters, I hoped with all my heart that I might have saved you all
Interlude: It is done, they have been condemned
Prelude (Scene 4)
Salve Regina
Bows and closing credits.
Subjects
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Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer.
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