Event listing: Les dialogues des Carmélites | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Event is in the past

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Programme

Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)

Performers

The Royal Opera
Sir Simon Rattle	Conductor
Robert Carsen	Director
Sally Matthews	Soprano	Blanche de la Force
Anna Prohaska	Soprano	Sœur Constance
Emma Bell	Soprano	Madame Lidoine, the new prioress
Sophie Koch	Mezzo-soprano	Mère Marie
Deborah Polaski	Contralto	Madame de Croissy, the prioress
Sir Thomas Allen	Baritone	Marquis de la Force
Yann Beuron	Tenor	Chevalier de la Force

Reviews of Dialogues des Carmélites directed by Robert Carsen

****1

Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam, November 2015

****1

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, May 2013

****1

Theater an der Wien, Vienna, April 2011

****1

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia: Sala Principal, Valencia, January 2025 (Español)

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Minimalist intensity: Robert Carsen's Dialogues des Carmélites at Covent Garden

David Karlin, 30th May

Robert Carsen’s production is an exercise in extreme minimalism. Dialogues des Carmélites is a great opera, and this production touches greatness without quite grasping it in both hands.

***11

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