'Dialogues of the Carmelites' at Washington National Opera
A penetrating and extremely lucid psychological austerity permeates the current production of the Washington National Opera's (WNO) Dialogues of the Carmelites by composer and librettist Francis Poulenc (after a play by composer Georges Bernanos). This most modern of operas (in sensibility —for the opera takes place in 1789 to 1794) presents universal and ever-constant traditional […] The post ‘Dial…