Organization

Zanger

Bass-baritone

Michael Kraus

Marquis de la Force

Soprano

Nicole Car

Blanche de La Force

Tenor

Bernard Richter

Chevalier de La Force

Contralto

Michaela Schuster

Madame de Croissy

Sabine Devieilhe

Sœur Constance de Saint-Denis

Mezzo-soprano

Julie Boulianne

Mère Marie de L'incarnation

Maria Motolygina

Madame Lidoine

Wiener Staatsoper

Dirigent

Bertrand de Billy

Regisseur

Magdalena Fuchsberger

Set designer

Monika Biegler

Kostuum ontwerper

Valentin Köhler

Video ontwerper

Aron Kitzig

Licht ontwerper

Rudolf Rischer

Orchestra

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Thomas Ebenstein

Le père confesseur du couvent

Bass

Jack Lee

Un officier

Andrea Giovannini

Premier Commissaire

Baritone

Jusung Gabriel Park

Deuxième Commissaire

Daria Sushkova

Sœur Mathilde

Stephanie Maitland

Mère Jeanne de l'Enfant-Jésus

Szilvia Vörös

Dialogues des Carmélites

Wenen

Oostenrijk

Dialogues des Carmélites Poulenc

Public

Approved

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.

English

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Cast

Productieteam

Ensemble