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CANCELED: Mendel Music Library Presents: Dialogues des Carmélites
March 31, 2020 · 7:00 pm—10:00 pm · Cone Seminar Room, Woolworth
Princeton University Library
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The Mendel Music Library will be streaming The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 production of “Dialogues des Carmélites,” (Dialogues of the Carmelites) with music and libretto by French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963). Premiered in 1957 at La Scala and a few months later in Paris, the opera tells the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, nuns who were guillotined during the Reign of Terror in late 18th-century Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation. Under the baton of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the cast includes: Isabel Leonard (Blanche de la Force), Adrianne Pieczonka (Madame Lidoine), Erin Morley (Constance), Karen Cargill (Mère Marie), Karita Mattila (Madame de Croissy), David Portillo (Chevalier de la Force), and Jean-François Lapointe (Marquis de la Force).
Musicology graduate student Campbell Shiflett, who organized the current Les Six exhibit in the Mendel Music Library, will give a pre-opera talk. The opera will be streamed via Princeton University Library’s subscription to Met Opera on Demand. Snacks and drinks provided. Open to all.