Directed by Don Kent. Some stand fast, some falter; all must finally make a harrowing decision. Libretto. The Mother Superior informs her that the Carmelite order is not a refuge: it is the duty of the nuns to guard the Order, not the other way around.

Dialogues des Carmélites is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. In the history of French opera Dialogues des Carmélites is a worthy successor to Debussy's Pelléas and indeed its touching heroine Blanche shares much of the troubling troubled, out-of-thisworld,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More… The timid Blanche de la Force decides to retreat from the world and enter a Carmelite convent. During the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, a small band of Carmelite nuns struggle to hold on to their faith amid the growing chaos and the ever-present threat of the guillotine. English & French. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site. Directed by Henry Prokop. With Heather Begg, Isobel Buchanan, Geoffrey Chard, Paul Ferris. Dialogues of the Carmelites was the climax of Francis Poulenc’s career as a religious composer, a role for which he seemed at first an unlikely candidate. With Anne-Sophie Schmidt, Valérie Millot, Nadine Denize, Patricia Petibon. The son of a devoutly Catholic businessman from the south of France, Poulenc (1899-1963) moved into chic and very secular Parisian circles in the 1920s. Francis Poulenc's opera Dialogues des carmélites consists of three acts, and takes place in France during the French Revolution in the late 18th Century. The composer's second opera, Poulenc wrote the libretto after the work of the same name by Georges Bernanos. Poulenc, Francis, Other Authors.

The opera premiered on January 1957 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. Dialogues des Carmélites. Machlis, Joseph, Bernanos, Georges. All about Dialogues des Carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites): Libretto ( Opera) by Francis Poulenc. Author.