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Singer

Soprano

Isabel Leonard

Blanche de la Force

Patricia Racette

Madame Lidoine

Erin Morley

Sister Constance of St. Denis

Mezzo-soprano

Elizabeth Bishop

Mother Marie of the Incarnation

Contralto

Felicity Palmer

Madame de Croissy

Tenor

Paul Appleby

The cavalier de la Force

Bass-baritone

David Pittsinger

The Marquis de la Force

Philip Skinner

MaryAnn McCormick

Sister Mathilde

Jane Shaulis

Mother Jeanne of the Holy Child Jesus

Mark Schowalter

Chaplain of the convent

Baritone

Eduardo Valdes

Thierry

Paul Corona

M. Javelino

Scott Scully

First commissioner

Richard Bernstein

Second commissioner

Patrick Carfizzi

The jailer

Conductor

Louis Langrée

Stage director

John Dexter

Set designer

David Reppa

Costume designer

Jane Greenwood

Lighting designer

Gil Wechsler

David Kneuss

Stephanie Chigas

Nuns

Kate Mangiameli

Rosemary Nencheck

Anne Nonemacher

Amanda Osorio

Belinda Thayer Oswald

Sara Stewart

The Metropolitan Opera

French

Dialogues des Carmélites -  (Dialogues of the Carmelites)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

The tragic fate of the nuns of the Carmelite convent at Compiègne during the French Revolution inspired one of Francis Poulenc’s most personal works, and one of the most profoundly moving operas in the repertoire. At its center is Isabel Leonard as Blanche de la Force, a shy young aristocratic woman who joins the order on the eve of the Revolution, flees when the sisters, forced to leave their convent, take a vow of martyrdom, and is finally reunited with them as they face death by the guillotine. Felicity Palmer is Madame de Croissy, Patricia Racette is Madame Lidoine, and Elizabeth Bishop is Mother Marie. Paul Appleby and David Pittsinger co-star as Blanche’s brother and father.

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