Film
Metropolitan Opera Live: Dialogues des Carmélites
- Director
- David Kneuss
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 210 mins
The French Revolution is kicking off and shy, timid Blanche de la Force (mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard) becomes a novice nun at a Carmelite convent under an elderly prioress (Karita Mattila). Her aristo family promptly scarper as The Terror takes hold, but Blanche stays behind – torn between her fear of Mme. Guillotine and her duty to the convent. Expect an Act III noggin separation, then…
Broadcast live in HD for the first time, this is a revivial of the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s tale of faith and martyrdom, led by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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