Opera Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’ at Catholic University of America by Dr. Mark Dreisonstok

“On July 17, 1794, sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne were executed by the guillotine.” This information, projected onto the screen at Hartke Theatre of Washington’s Catholic University of America, is the premise for “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” an opera by the twentieth-century composer and librettist Francis Poulenc.  …this outstanding production will long remember this dialogue of […]

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