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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites / Opera in three acts / Libretto: Francis Poulenc after Georges Bernanos / BAVARIAN STATE ORCHESTRA CHOIR OF THE BAVARIAN STATE OPERA Conductor KENT NAGANO / Chorus master ANDRÉS MÁSPERO / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 152 Minutes
UPC: 3760115300613
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.39 Ounces
- Director : Dmitri Tcherniakov
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Classical
- Release date : June 28, 2011
- Actors : Soile Isokoski, Susanne Resmark, Helene Guilmette, Bernard Richter, Alain Vernhes
- Subtitles: : English, French, German, Spanish
- Studio : Bel Air Classiques
- Writers : Francis Poulenc
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
Dialogues des Carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites), FP 159, is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. The composer's second opera, Poulenc wrote the libretto after the work of the same name by Georges Bernanos. The opera tells a fictionalised version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who, in 1794 during the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation.
The world première of the opera occurred (in Italian translation) on 26 January 1957 at La Scala in Milan. The première of the French-language version took place in Paris on 21 June 1957. The United States première, in English, followed in San Francisco in September 1957
