Dialogues des Carmelites, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: First seen in Amsterdam in 1997, Robert Carsen's gripping production has been widely restaged - in Madrid, Vienna and Toronto, as well as at La Scala, Milan. Based on events that took place during the French Revolution, the opera shows a group of Carmelite nuns accepting martyrdom and eventually being guillotined in a climactic final scene that is simultaneously harrowing and stirring.…