Dialogues des Carmélites

In the organizer's words:

by Francis Poulenc
Opera in three acts and twelve pictures
The libretto by Francis Poulenc is based on the drama of the same name by Georges Bernanos and was adapted for the opera with the permission of Emmet Lavery, based on the novella Die Letzte am Schafott by Gertrud von Le Fort and a script by R.P.Brückberger and Philippe Agostini.
Few operas focus on the confrontation with one's own mortality as much as Francis Poulenc's opera about an order of Carmelite nuns in the turmoil of the French Revolution, which premiered in 1957. The story revolves around the young Blanche, who - plagued by severe anxiety since birth - finds shelter in a convent. But the time of security ends abruptly when the Revolutionary Committee breaks up the convent and forbids the community from practicing its rites. The sisters swear themselves to martyrdom, but Blanche's fear of death drives her to flee. But at the last moment, she overcomes herself and follows her sisters to the scaffold. In her production of this hybrid of thriller, discourse opera and holy mass, director Ewelina Marciniak, who is known for her feminist readings, focuses on the dynamics of a community of women struggling to communicate and be human in the midst of terror. And under the musical direction of Cornelius Meister, Poulenc's powerful music becomes an event. This content has been machine translated.

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On April 12 and 18: Only €10 on all seats for pupils, trainees and students