#Dialogues des Carmélites

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

gotten two responses to the “what is YOUR opera” thing going around and both of them fit into the oddly specific category of “area french noblewoman with an undiagnosed anxiety disorder accidentally gets thrown into Major Parisian Historical Event in which she and many others get murdered by the french government for religious reasons”

haven’t we all been there

@malcolm-f-tucker @shredsandpatches

[doyouknowthisopera]

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

the real misfortune, my daughter, is not to be held in contempt, but to have contempt for yourself.

[jewish-fanboy]

the dialogues of the carmelites is such a stunningly explanatory name for an opera.

like. they’re nuns. they talk. wow. an opera. about nuns talking.

oh yeah and then they die

[arcimboldisworld]

ARCIMBOLDIS COLUMN #38: RÜCKBLICK 2022 -OPER

ARCIMBOLDIS COLUMN #38: RÜCKBLICK 2022 -OPER #jahresrückblickOPER #2022 #operzürich #operanationaldeparis #luzernertheater #theaterbern #musicwasmyfirstloveanditwillbemylast #operalover

Nach eher mageren pandemischen Opernjahren, kann ich wieder auf ein prall gefülltes Jahr 2022 zurückblicken – nicht jeder Besuch hat sich gelohnt, dennoch gibt es einige Highlights. Hier kommt meine kurze persönliche Rückschau mit meinen Top 5 im Jahr 2022: Continue reading Untitled

[lives-in-a-harpsichord]

I will admit some of these people may not be as well-adjusted as others but not pointing any fingers

[operacomments]

screencap of the final scene of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. comment, from Naomi :), reads: wow, this is immensly [sic] depressing

[lesser-known-composers]

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Dialogues des carmélites: Act III: Mes filles, voilà s'achève ·

Soprano: Leontyne Price

London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Downes

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

it’s july 17 again so it’s time to post this again

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

she dialogue with my carmelites till i lottielee. is this anything

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

I NEED ALL THE DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS IMMEDIATELY

aaaaa this is literally so late but i finally got a chance to breathe after classes 😭 this opera was just so much…. the views of convent life... AOUGHHSGHOUHGO AAAAUGHGWUAGH WEEPING women like those took care of me for three years HGSHHWHGH AUAUGHHGH constance? so charming. she absolutely broke my heart at the end. as did the whole convent but That is beside the point‼️ and blanche blanche blanche her uncertainty her fear !!!! what is martyrdom and is it chosen or willed? blanche having not made her perpetual vows by the end but her last action being a perpetual vow in and of itself in the most poignant way... the ironic tragedy that is mother marie!!!!! the last scene. SCREAMING WAILING IN AGONY. the chaplain watching them while hiding his blessing in the last scene QLWIGOIBWEOIGHQHOIHGOIGQOIHGHGHIOHG!!!!!!

yeah, anyway 💁🏻‍♀️

[musicloves]

Francis Poulenc: 1899-1963

Clarinet Sonata

La Voix Humane

Piano Concerto

Concerto for organ, strings and timpani

Dialogues des Carmélites

[princesssarisa]

Here's a big list I've made (because of course I had to) of opera birthdays, for anyone who wants to remember and celebrate them.

(Les Contes d'Hoffmann shares my birthday!)

January

2: Der Fliegende Holländer

3: Don Pasquale

14: Tosca

15: Vanessa

19: Il Trovatore, Manon

21: Jenufa

22: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

23: Eugene Onegin

24: I Puritani

25: La Cenerentola, Elektra

26: Cosí Fan Tutte, Der Rosenkavalier, Dialogues des Carmélites

27: Boris Godunov

29: Idomeneo

February

1: La Bohéme, Manon Lescaut

2: Louise

3: Semiramide

5: Otello

6: La Voix Humaine

7: Orphée aux Enfers, Four Saints in Three Acts, Il Matrimonio Segreto,

9: Falstaff, Khovanschina

10: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

11: La Fille du Régiment

16: Werther

17: Madama Butterfly, Un Ballo in Maschera

19: Don Quichotte

20: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Giulio Cesare, La Wally

23: La Juive

24: Rinaldo

29: La Forza del Destino

March

3: Carmen

6: La Traviata, La Sonnambula

9: Nabucco, Ernani, Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor

11: Rigoletto, Don Carlos, I Capuleti e I Montecchi

12: Simon Boccanegra

13: Médée (Cherubini)

14: Macbeth

16: Thaïs

17: Attila

19: Faust

21: L’Enfant et les Sortileges

27: La Rondine

28: Andréa Chenier

31: Rusalka

April

5: Die Fledermaus

8: La Gioconda

10: L’Amore dei Tre Re

14: Lakmé

15: Serse

16: Alcina, Le Prophéte

25: Turandot

27: Roméo et Juliette

28: L’Africaine

30: Pelléas et Melisande

May

1: Le Nozze di Figaro

5: Mefistofele

12: L’Elisir d’Amore

17: Cavalleria Rusticana

18: Iphigénie en Tauride

19: L’Heure Espagnole

21: Pagliacci, Doktor Faust

22: L’Italiana in Algeri

24: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Cendrillon

30: The Bartered Bride

June

6: Moses und Aron

7: Peter Grimes

10: Tristan und Isolde

11: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten)

12: War and Peace

13: Les Vêpres Siciliennes/I Vespri Siciliani

18: Der Freischütz

20: Albert Herring, La Navarraise

21: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

26: Die Wälkure

July

1: Arabella

16: Die Entführung aus dem Serail

26: Parsifal

August

3: Guillaume Tell

9: Béatrice et Bénédict

14: Il Turco in Italia

16: Siegfried

17: Götterdämmerung

28: Lohengrin

September

5: La Serva Padrona, Satyagraha

6: La Clemenza di Tito

11: The Rake’s Progress

14: The Turn of the Screw

22: Das Rheingold

24: La Donna del Lago

26: Lucia di Lammermoor

30: Die Zauberflöte, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Porgy and Bess

October

5: Orfeo ed Euridice

7: The Golden Cockerel

10: Die Frau ohne Schatten

19: Tannhäuser

22: Nixon in China

25: Ariadne auf Naxos

28: Roberto Devereux, Cappriccio

29: Don Giovanni

31: L’Amico Fritz

November

4: Les Troyens, Prince Igor, Intermezzo

6: Adriana Lecouvreur, The Cunning Little Vixen

10: La Forza del Destino

16: Stiffelio

17: Fedora

20: Fidelio

23: Kát’a Kabanová

25: Martha

27: L’Arlesiana, Ruslan and Lyudmila, The Bohemian Girl

December

1: Billy Budd

2: Samson et Dalila, La Favourite

4: Die Tote Stadt

6: La Damnation de Faust

8: Luisa Miller

9: Salome

10: La Fanciulla del West

14: Il Trittico (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi), Wozzeck

18: Iolanta

19: Pique Dame, The Ghosts of Versailles

23: Hänsel und Gretel

24: Aida, Amahl and the Night Visitors

26: Norma, Alceste, Anna Bolena

30: The Merry Widow, Maria Stuarda, The Love for Three Oranges

i do think it’s a really fun feature that operas have birthdays. i know that everything can have a birthday if you know how to look at things but i love that every march 6 i see people saying happy birthday la traviata!! and every october 29 i see jokes about how of course don giovanni the opera is a scorpio (although i think don giovanni the character should have been born in may). there’s something so kind about it

[hairtusk]

does anyone happen to have a link to a good recording of dialogues des carmélites ?