Organization

Chanteur

Baryton-basse

Michael Kraus

La marquis de La Force

Soprano

Nicole Car

Blanche

Ténor

Bernard Richter

Chevalier de la Force

Contralto

Michaela Schuster

Mme de Croissy

Sabine Devieilhe

Sœur Constance

Mezzo-soprano

Julie Boulianne

Mere Marie

Maria Motolygina

Madame Lidione

Wiener Staatsoper

Direction d'orchestre

Bertrand de Billy

Mise en scène

Magdalena Fuchsberger

Décors

Monika Biegler

Costumes

Valentin Köhler

Video

Aron Kitzig

Lumières

Rudolf Rischer

Orchestra

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Thomas Ebenstein

L ánmonier

Basse

Jack Lee

L'officier

Andrea Giovannini

Premiere Commissaire

Baryton

Jusung Gabriel Park

2. Comissaire

Daria Sushkova

Soeur Mathilde

Stephanie Maitland

Mére Jeanne

Szilvia Vörös

Dialogues des Carmélites

Vienne

Autriche

Dialogues des Carmélites Poulenc

Public

Valide

Of the three operas created by Francis Poulenc, his only full-length opera is based on a historical event from the time of the »Grande Terreur« in France: on 12 July 1794, 16 nuns belonging to the Carmel of Compiègne were executed in Paris. They had continued to practise their faith communally after the abolition of all religious communities by the National Assembly, and the charge of the Revolutionary Tribunal was accordingly counter-revolutionary practices. In the most famous scene of his work - the last - Poulenc set this very execution to music, following not only the literary models for his libretto but also tradition: the nuns ascend the scaffold, singing the Salve Regina. With the sound of the axe, one voice is cut off at a time, until at the end only one singer can be heard. When this voice is also interrupted by the sharp sound of the guillotine and shortly afterwards another soprano voice intones the Veni creator spiritus, the strong interweaving of historicising and fictional elements comes to a climax, which made the   such a gripping theatrical material and helped to secure the work an important place in the opera history of the 20th century.

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