Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The opera tells the harrowing true story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, a convent of ...
The single thing that makes or breaks a production of Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” opera are the emphatic whoosh and hiss of the “guillotine” sounds late in Act 3, when nearly 20 ...
"Some people thought it was a bit inappropriate to write something light after the war," Opera Parallele music director Nicole Paiement notes. The subject? Gay French composer Francis Poulenc's first ...
On April 7, 2026, the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will present POULENC/SONDHEIM at Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Hall, featuring a unique juxtaposition of Francis Poulenc and Stephen Sondheim's ...
While live, indoor opera has returned in cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, other opera companies are taking a more gradual approach. Some are waiting until November or ...
For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...
France’s Composer Francis Poulenc, 58, built a solid reputation as the composer of sophisticated vocal works, frothy, impudent ballets and opera such as Les Mamelles de Tirésias* which gaily urged its ...
For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...
Relatives double over at the bedside of a dead man. They look inconsolable—trembling hands, wan faces, low moans. They mourn. Hands wrestle drawers, tear envelopes. Faces peer into corners, squint at ...
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