Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Based on the true story of an order of Carmelite nuns who faced execution by ...

The Metropolitan Opera presented a star-studded cast of female voices in its revival of the now-classic John Dexter production of Dialogue des Carmélites on January 15. Dexter’s staging, now nearing ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. San Francisco Opera's Centennial Season continues with Francis Poulenc's Dialogues ...

For all the glib talk around the Opera House about glimpsing the sublime in Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, including a note with that title by the company’s general director Matthew ...

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 ...

Crowds have been flocking to the Metropolitan Opera to take in a heart-wrenching tale of religious persecution that continues into the next two weekends. Dialogues des Carmélites is one of the most ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick This revival of John Dexter’s production of “Dialogues des Carmélites” features a tightly knit cast led by the full-voiced soprano Ailyn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...