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Dialogues des Carmélites / Francis Poulenc.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963, composer, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 49 min., 57 sec.)) : sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1987]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Full screen.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- 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.
- 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?
- But why do you not answer me?
- Oh, do not leave me so, with a goodbye said in anger
- 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
- 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
- Salve Regina
- Bows and closing credits.
- Participant:
- Maria Ewing, Jessye Norman, Betsy Norden, Régine Crespin, Florence Quivar ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Manuel Rosenthal, conductor.
- Credits:
- Director, John Dexter.
- Notes:
- Recorded live 1987 Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 949904858
- Publisher Number:
- USY3P1501367
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- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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