Proms 2023 Prom 31: Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites - BBC Proms

7 Aug 2023, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Mon 7 Aug 2023 Next Event

Prom 31: Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites

19:00 Mon 7 Aug 2023 Royal Albert Hall

Robin Ticciati conducts Francis Poulenc’s devastatingly powerful opera Dialogues of the Carmelites in a concert staging fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival.

Programme

- - Francis Poulenc
  - Dialogues of the Carmelites(151 mins)

Performers

Sally Matthews
Blanche de la Force
Blanche de la Force
Katarina Dalayman
Madame de Croissy (Old Prioress)
Madame de Croissy (Old Prioress)
Golda Schultz
Madame Lidoine (New Prioress)
Madame Lidoine (New Prioress)
Karen Cargill
Mother Marie of the Incarnation
Mother Marie of the Incarnation
Florie Valiquette
Sister Constance of St Denis
Sister Constance of St Denis
Fiona Kimm
Mother Jeanne of the Child Jesus
Mother Jeanne of the Child Jesus
Paul Gay
Marquis de la Force
Marquis de la Force
Valentin Thill
Chevalier de la Force
Chevalier de la Force
Vincent Ordonneau
Father Confessor
Father Confessor
Theodore Platt
Jailer
Jailer
Jamie Woollard
Thierry, a footman
Thierry, a footman
Matthew Nuttall
M. Javelinot, a physician
M. Javelinot, a physician
Jade Moffat
Sister Mathilde
Sister Mathilde
Gavan Ring
First Commissary
First Commissary
Michael Ronan
Second Commissary
Second Commissary
Michael Lafferty
Officer
Officer
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Robin Ticciati
conductor
conductor

Composers

Francis Poulenc

About This Event

At the murderous height of the French Revolution, Blanche de la Force flees the violence on Paris’s streets and enters the convent. But horror pursues her, and she is forced to confront her fears. Can she find the courage to live – or die? A 20th-century masterpiece, Francis Poulenc’s opera Dialogues of the Carmelites is a devastatingly powerful portrait of human courage, faith and community. Robin Ticciati conducts an all-star cast including Sally Matthews and Golda Schultz in this concert-staging fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival.

Semi-staged; sung in French, with English surtitles

There will be one interval

Part of

Proms 2023