Maryland Opera Studio: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Maryland Opera Studio: Dialogues of the Carmelites
April 14 - 22, 2018
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Principal People:
Francis Poulenc, composer and librettist
Event Attributes
Premiered in 1957, Poulenc's opera explores religious devotion and self-sacrifice through the story of Blanche de la Force, a young aristocratic woman who joins the Carmelite Order to escape the violence of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
The opera will be performed in French with English surtitles.