This April 24, 2013 photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows the opening scene in Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites," during a dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The opera tells the harrowing true story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, a convent of ...

For its latest musical adventure, Long Beach Opera requisitioned the basement of an old bank building downtown, vault and all. Now known as the Underground Club (part of the Federal Bar), the space ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Poulenc's Dialogues de Carmélites is based on the martyrdom of 16 Carmelite nuns ...

In 1794, a group of Carmelite nuns and lay sisters were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their order and its monastic vows. Their story became the basis for a novel, a play, and finally ...

To a casual observer, there might not seem to be much mileage in combining Kurt Weill's dark-hued "Mahagonny Songspiel" with "The Breasts of Tiresias," Francis Poulenc's breathlessly lighthearted jape ...

The title role in Francis Poulenc’s 1944 opera Les mamelles de Tiresias is not played by anyone onstage, but by the bag of balloons on director Dan Miller’s prop table. A pair of those balloons, ...

Paul Corona performs as Javelinot, Karita Mattila as Mme. de Croissy and Karin Cargill as Mere Marie in Dialogues des Carmelites. Some operas inspire reverence beyond who gets kissed and who gets ...

A Poulenc opera was targeted by Just Stop Oil protestors, who set off air horns and confetti bombs during a performance at Glyndebourne festival. Three Just Stop Oil protesters interrupted an opera ...