Dialogues des carmélites - Nancy Opera house (2026) - Dialogues des carmélites - Opéra National de Nancy Lorraine (2026)

Description

Revival of Tiphaine Raffier's production, which we reviewed in our French columns from Rouen in January 2025.

"With this powerful and moving work, playwright Tiphaine Raffier makes a sensational entrance into the world of opera. She chooses to present this masterpiece by Francis Poulenc in its most radical and contemporary form, telling how Blanche's courage gradually merges with that of the entire community as it advances toward the guillotine in one of the most moving scenes in the entire operatic repertoire. This show doesn't present us with a flawless heroine, but a woman in search of the absolute who, against the rigid codes of an aristocratic family and political fanaticism, decides to remain faithful to her commitment, to the end."

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.