Poulenc-"Dialogues des Carmelites"-Finale-Sop LAURA AIKIN

Teatro alla Scala
Dir:Riccardo Muti
Reg:Robert Carsen

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical

[ozzycouture]

I love this performance because it emphasizes the music, specifically the harmony of the four last nuns (quartet @4:00 ) as it dissolves into the last two nuns (duet @ 4:39). In most versions on YouTube, you cannot hear the harmony this clearly. Absolutely heavenly. I also like the subtitles with the libretto

[giorgioot]

è una delle regie più sorprendenti e geniali...io c'ero, tutte le sere era un'emozione fortissima e poi ...che musica sublime!

[Jitpring]

Those disgusting Jacobins of the French Revolution. Just think, they actually did this. And much more!

Go to audiosancto org and type French Revolution into the search box. Then listen. Devastating.

Also go to amazon and search for this list: Counter-Revolutionaries, Unite!

[lvgraham]

So beautiful and moving, it brought me to tears. I love the way the light makes the image of a dove from the breast and arms of the nun at the very end. So fitting, as their sacrifice brought about peace and transformation.

[lauthomas5]

@anamorphosys85, d'accord avec vous concernant le côté "suspense" bien qu'en dernier ce sera toujours Constance et Blanche, mais personnellement la gestique me déplaît, je trouve que ça fait un peu soirée annuelle de la "gym-dames" du 3ème âge!

[anamorphosys85]

@lauthomas5 c'est une mise en scène ! et une belle en plus selon moi. on ne sait/voit pas avant qui va ensuite à la guillotine (au contraire d'une mise en scène "classique" ou "traditionelle") et on tient le suspense comme ca. comme LoudCitizen a déjà dit : c'est le theâtre, c'est pas tout littéral.

[lauthomas5]

Je me demande si les bonnes soeurs pratiquaient le tai chi avant de monter à la guillotine durant la Révolution ??? Dommage.... la musique est si belle ainsi que les voix d'ailleurs!

[anamorphosys85]

@basselyrique: that's what I think too. I saw the opera a few days ago in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna with Carsen's staging and there was such a tension at that final scene with that choreography that a collapse would have disturbed it. The choreography might imply the community sense of the Carmelite nuns facing death together. I don't think that the gestures are too much. In fact it's quite minimalistic in my opinion as it emphasizes their strong faith and believe towards that situation.

[LoudCitizen]

@gnw1944 That's a very silly comment. Of course this production answers the question of how they died. You can clearly hear the guillotine every time one of them drops. This is theatre, everything is not supposed to be literal.

[gnw1944]

Productions like this do NOT answer the question of HOW they died !! To deny this SERIOUSLY compromises the power of impact !

[galisonlau]

Very great idea and beautiful gestures!!! BUT with extremely poor angels and focus of the camera!!!!! Ruined the whole picture of this scene!!!!!

[basselyrique]

@luseem16 You imagine so? The Strasbourg production was directed by Marthe Keller. Btw, a collapse in this staging would have killed the tension created by the choreography.