TDK: DVWW-OPDDCPoulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  0824121002312 DVWW-OPDDC | Libretto by the composer based on the play by Georges BernanosStage Direction by Robert Carsen
Dagmar Schellenberger, Anja Silja, Barbara Dever & Laura Aikin Orchestra e Coro dell’Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2004 “This beautifully performed, perceptively directed production offers a near-perfect presentation of Poulenc's disturbing and penetrating drama. In realising the twists and turns of this study in manipulation, Anja Silja and Dagmar Schellenberger deliver particularly compelling performances.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 “Robert Carsen's production is effective in its simplicity, allowing the drama to speak for itself. Dagmar Schellenberger compellingly conveys Blanche's journey from distress to acceptance… Anja Silja's portrayal of the old Prioress is outstanding, with its disturbing transformation from serene wisdom to terrified, blasphemous, near-madness as death approaches. ...Riccardo Muti and the La Scala orchestra in magnificent form, captured in magnificent sound. Ultimately, it is the final scene, with its multiple executions, that makes or breaks a production of Dialogues. Carsen's allegorical solution is both elegant and deeply moving.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 *****  BBC Music Magazine
DVD Choice - September 2007 |
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