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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites [DVD] [1999]

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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites [DVD] [1999]

DVD ~ Anne-Sophie Schmidt

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Actors: Anne-Sophie Schmidt, Val�rie Millot, Nadine Denize, Patricia Petibon, Hedwig Fassbender
Format: Classical, PAL, Widescreen
Subtitles: English, German, Dutch
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: ARTHAUS
DVD Release Date: 16 Aug 2000
Run Time: 149 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B00004Y3OP
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 57,331 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Poulenc's late pious works for voice share the sprightliness of his early secular orchestral and chamber pieces; this is perhaps especially true of his 1952 work of devotion and martyrdom. Young aristocrat Blanche seeks refuge in the cloister from her fear of death only to find the Carmelites she joins the object of persecution by the Jacobin Revolution; she flees, but then comes back to share her sisters' death--a powerful scene in which a hymn is stripped down a voice at a time, and finally silenced when Blanche joins them on the guillotine. Anne Sophie Schmidt as Blanche is convincing both in her terror and her resignation; Patricia Petibon is delightful as her closest friend, the lively young nun Constance to whom fear is never especially an issue and who has sought death cheerfully from the start, praying that the dying Prioress might be saved and she taken in her place. The older women--the two Prioresses and Mere Marie who persuades the nuns to refuse compromise--are equally fine in their graver music. --Roz Kaveney

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16:9 Wide Screen
Region 0
PCM Stereo
Dutch\English\German

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary, 19 May 2009

By	D. G. H. Haslett "dghhaslett" (Berlin) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was a complete surprise for me. The cast has very few international names (Petibon has gone on to more, Dale is well known in French repertory) - but the total effect is extraordinary. Here is a cast of singers simply giving the performances of their lives in a tremendously involving production by Marthe Keller.

I guess you either love this work or hate it - some may reject the seeming religiosity - but believer or not, this is an opera which deals with human beings in relation to one another and attempting to access a sense of a 'higher power'. It is a deeply Catholic work but one can be a total atheist and relate to it, I feel, as it deals so much with universal notions of fear, faith, and the sacrifices we might be called on for our beliefs.

Poulenc's knowledge of the voice and his awareness of the operatic repertory led him to write a piece which uses various vocal types (a Verdian spinto for Madame Lidoine etc etc) so there are many opportunities for the display of certain vocal types. And there is little external action - this is indeed a series of 'Dialogues'.

But what drama he finds here - whether it be the truly gruelling death of the old Prioress (shades of the death of Boris Goudonov and fully equal to it) or the duet for Blanche and her brother in the second act - wholly static dramatically but so alive with energy and momentum... The finale is action in a very forceful way as they go to the guillotine - it does threaten to overwhelm the action as so much as been talked about. But this is a production which knows when to press the dramatic button and when to hold back.

It is a fantastic production of a great opera. I have seen plenty - this one is the best!

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