Feb 1, 2023
Writer and music critic Robert Reilly joins the podcast to
talk about one of many biggest operas ever composed, Francis Poulenc’s
1957 Dialogues des Carmélites, which host Thomas Mirus
lately noticed on the Metropolitan Opera. Based mostly on the true story of
sixteen Carmelite nuns who had been martyred within the French Revolution
(famously singing the Salve Regina as they went to the guillotine),
the opera is an adaptation of Georges Bernanos’s play, which in
flip was tailored from Gertrud von le Fort’s novella Music on the
Scaffold.
With excellent non secular realism, Dialogues
dramatizes the inside wrestle of a soul. Its examination of the
complicated mix of motives for pursuing a non secular vocation, the
worry of dying, and the transference of grace, is all of the extra
shifting when mixed with Poulenc’s beautiful music.
Along with this opera, Reilly introduces us to another
nice music by this Catholic composer.
One of many extra widespread Twentieth-c. operas – Georges Bernanos
screenplay/stage play, based mostly on Gertrud von le Fort Music on the
Scaffold
Hyperlinks
Robert Reilly, Stunned by Magnificence: A Listener’s Information to the
Restoration of Fashionable Music
https://www.amazon.com/Stunned-Magnificence-Listeners-Restoration-Fashionable/dp/1586179055
Stunned by Magnificence web site with music opinions and album
suggestions https://surprisedbybeautyorg.wordpress.com
Poulenc recordings heard on this episode:
Mass No. 2 in G Main, RIAS Kammerchor, carried out by
Marcus Creed
Dialogues des Carmélites, Dervaux, Duval, Crespin
Movies proven:
Metropolitan Opera 1987 efficiency of finale from Dialogues
des Carmelites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbRpYJsqhpE
Metropolitan Opera 2019 excerpts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehyz-CH4QHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wchkYKj5n8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtgq-SkpRA
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