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In 1957 Francis Poulenc’s fascinating opera on a Carmelite convent in the turmoil of the French Revolution was given its world première at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Now, more than fifty years later, audiences is also able to hear it for the first time ever at the Bavarian State Opera. On the podium of the Bavarian State Orchestra: Kent Nagano, conducting a work that has always been very close to his heart. The opera will be produced by Dmitry Cherniakov, a stage director who is not an unknown quantity to Munich audiences. Three years ago, he created our production of Modest Mussorgsky’s monumental Khovanshchina.
Dialogues des Carmélites tells the story of young Blanche de la Force, who, obsessed with a nameless fear of life, enters a Carmelite convent. When the French Revolution finally bursts in on this community of women, Blanche is forced to decide e between life and death. Francis Poulenc has set this story of self conquest and anxiety in poetic and effecticve music. Dmitry Cherniakov will use his haunting and abstract stage language to tell a modern-day story of Blanche, the story of a young woman in quest of her place in society.
Francis Poulenc
Dialogues des Carmélites
Thu April 08, 2010, 7.00 P.M. Tickets
Wed April 14, 2010, 7.00 P.M. Tickets
Sat April 17, 2010, 7.00 P.M. Tickets
Fri April 23, 2010, 7.30 P.M. Tickets
Munich Opera Festival
Fri July 9, 2010, 7.00 P.M. Tickets
Tue July 13, 2010, 7.00 P.M. Tickets
Nationaltheater
