Dialogues des Carmélites : opera en trois actes et 12 Tableaux / musique de Francis Poulenc ; texte de la piece de Georges Bernanos ; porte a l'opera avec l'autorisation de M. Emmet Lavery producteur delegue, Francois Duplat ; realisation, Don Kent.

Berlin, Germany : C Major Entertainment, 1999.

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"Francis Poulenc's penultimate opera tells of the dissolution of the Carmelite cloister of Compiegne at the end of the 18th century, the second year of the new French Republic. The fate and eventual martyrdom of the 16 Carmelite nuns led by a young novice, Blanche de la Force (Anne-Sophie Schmidt), is powerfully portrayed in this minimalist production directed by Marthe Keller."--SBS website.

Print version: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Dialogues des Carmélites. Berlin, Germany : C Major Entertainment, 1999 publisher catalog number

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Director of photography, Jacques Audrain ; editor, Arnaud Petitet ; stage director, Marthe Keller ; set design, Jean-Pierre Capeyron.

Anne-Sophie Schmidt (Blanche de la Force), Hedwig Fassbender (Mere Marie), Patricia Petibon (Constance), Didier Henry (Le Marquis de la Force), Laurence Dale (Le chevalier de la Force), Nadine Denize (Madame de Croissy), Valerie Millot (Madame Lidoine) ; Jan Latham-Koenig, conductor ; Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg ; Choeurs de l'Opéra national du Rhin.