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Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites from The Met

Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmelites from The Met

Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites from The Met

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites from The Met

Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York

Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this powerful score with Isabel Leonard as Blanche and Karita Mattila as the Prioress.

Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites is a story of faith put to the ultimate test. The opera is about a group of Carmelite nuns who, during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation. It is in three acts and was completed in 1956.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this powerful score. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the innocent novice Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila takes on the dramatic role of the Prioress.

Presented from the Met by Loren Toolajian and Ira Siff. 

Blanche.....Isabel Leonard (Mezzo-soprano) 
Madame Lidoine.....Adrianne Pieczonka (Soprano) 
Sister Constance.....Erin Morley (Soprano) 
Mother Marle.....Karen Cargill (Mezzo-soprano) 
Madame de Croissy.....Karita Mattila (Soprano) 
Chevalier.....David Portillo (Tenor) 
Marquis de la Force.....Dwayne Croft (Baritone) 
Sister Mathilde.....Emily D'angelo (Mezzo-soprano) 
Mother Jeanne.....Tichina Vaughn (Contralto) 
Chaplain.....Tony Stevenson (Tenor) 
Thierry.....Eduardo Valdes (Baritone) 
Monsieur Javelinot.....Paul Corona (Bass) 
First Commissioner.....Scott Scully (Tenor) 
Second Commissioner.....Richard Bernstein (Bass) 
Jailer.....Patrick Carfizzi (Baritone) 
off-stage voice.....Jean Braham (Soprano) 
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 
Yannick Nezet-Seguin (Conductor)

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