Review: Exquisitely Subtle CARMELITES Makes Another of Its Brief Stops at the Met
I’ve heard the opera a number of times at the Met over the years and this year’s run holds up with the most breathtaking of them.
I’ve heard the opera a number of times at the Met over the years and this year’s run holds up with the most breathtaking of them.
You'd never know that the Met's production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES is over 40 years old, except for a few giveaways.
The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, will begin its 13th season on October 6, with the Met's grand production of Verdi's Aida, starring one of the world's most acclaimed sopranos, Anna Netrebko.
What would the Metropolitan Opera (and its audiences) do without its production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES, which opened for the season with Saturday's matinee, May 4? As created in 1977 for its Met premiere by director John Dexter, this CARMELITES is unlike anything else in the c