Sat, May 14, 2022, 7.30 pm - 10.45 pm | Main Stage
With his "Dialogues des Carmélites", premiered in Milan in 1957, the French composer Francis Poulenc switched sides. At first it seems only a step behind the walls of the cloister: the noise of the world is heard only dimly here, and outside events are reflected merely in “conversations of the Carmelite nuns”. However, this also entails a change of perspective: Poulenc does not give us a grand historical tableau, preferring to describe the events as the moving story of his main protagonist Blanche. In doing so, he asks her, and the audience, the existential question: what do we do when the world around us comes unhinged?
Director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff
Set Designer: Raimund Bauer
Costume Designer: Andrea Schmidt-Futterer
Lighting Designer: Olaf Freese
Choreografic Consultant: Dagmar Thole
Set Design Collaboration: Philipp Nicolai
Costume Design Collaboration: Barbara Carbonell
Premiere am: 26.01.2003
A brak of 25 minutes after the first act (after about 70 minutes)
In French with German surtitles