DIALOGUES Or how theatre and opera combined to create a showabout death of sixteen Carmelites and about fear
Director Catarina Neves
Countries Portugal
Duration 70 min
Synopsis
On July 17, 1794, in the midst of the French Revolution, 16 Carmelite nuns were guillotined, accused of collusion with counterrevolutionary activities. The film follows Luís Miguel Cintra’s stage direction of Poulenc’s opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.
On July 17, 1794, in the midst of the French Revolution, 16 Carmelite nuns were guillotined, accused of collusion with counterrevolutionary activities. The film follows Luís Miguel Cintra’s stage direction of Poulenc’s opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.