Dialogues Des Carmelites (final scene / Salve Regina) F. Poulenc

[@gregoriodoria]

È il finale d'opera più intenso e struggente che io conosca. Non riesco a trattenere le lacrime

[@lillyv7702]

Mi associo a te con tutto il cuore

[@michelegiovetti6678]

Vero! È una scena sconvolgente, potentissima. Qui le coriste della Scala sono straordinarie (come al solito).

[@erzelles]

Oui je suis tout à fait d’accord…

[@pauljesson1]

This staging is quite remarkable and very moving, so much more imaginative than any literal version. For those who ask 'Where's the guillotine?' the answer is 'In the music.'

[@joeleferri8026]

Forse non riescono ad udire il calare della lama e lo spegnersi delle voci.

[@willypeters2969]

I first saw it in the opera and I was totally hit by the power of this staging. I just couldn't but let my tears go. And now, every time I see it again, it hits me, over and over again. I keep thinking of all those people that were brutally torn out of their lives for the most unbelievable reasons. We should learn from history, but do we? Can we?

[@genevieveyevdochenko9300]

Grandiose ce spectacle quand on connaît l'historique 🎶🙏🌈❤️

[@genevieveyevdochenko9300]

Spectacle grandiose thème ,interprétation,(quelles grandes artistes)❤😘🙏🎶💕

[@bratscheguy1023]

This is one of the most powerful moments in Opera. This staging & direction is simply amazing & haunting at the same time. Definitely had tears running down my face. Bravo!

[@Dardjiskien]

I saw it at the opera with my grandmother. At the end I couldn’t loosen my jaws

[@Dardjiskien]

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[@katrinaluna6447]

D

[@edgreisl1]

One of the most emotional scenes in all of opera ❤️❤️

[@anamorphosys85]

For me, this is the best production of Dialogues des Carmélites I've witnessed in years. Apart from Francis Poulenc's impeccable music, Robert Carsen's intentional sparse staging focusses on powerful and haunting images as well as each character's journey with fear and death throughout the opera. I was very lucky to see this production in the Theater an der Wien Vienna and in Covent Garden in London, and it never fails to move me.

[@lillyv7702]

C e dolore e tristezza infinite ma al tempo stesso c' e' qualcosa di sublime che da speranza e che va oltre la morte

[@careinn10]

One of the most powerful things I've ever seen and heard. Tears are running down my face. What a haunting scene.

[@erpollock]

I've seen Dialogues a number of times at the Met and at Juilliard - but never before saw the last scene staged so minimally and effectively. And chillingly. The Salve Regina is beautiful and terrible.

[@genevieveyevdochenko9300]

Grandiose de pureté de beauté 😌😘🎶🌠💞

[@Operafreak9]

Best performance I have ever seen of this magnificent masterpiece. The singing is truly inspired.

[@genevieveyevdochenko9300]

Grandiose spectacle historique dramatique😌😘🎶🙏🦄💞

[@sammieseoul5544]

I saw this at a young age and I felt like I was watching a horror film.. just BRUTAL...

[@quequitoAR]

Thrilling. Even 39 years after the first time I heard this scene.

[@hugoperini8097]

Una de las escenas más emocinantes de la historia de la ópera

[@j.richardmonast5686]

Great and powerful opera. Saw it several times at the Metropolitan Opera. Very emotional!

[@ajh3422]

Like others on here, I have seen a number of productions in the theatre over the years. There are few operatic scenes with such gripping intensity, but this staging (even watching it online) is both gut-wrenching and gorgeous.

[@Emgee78]

I've been watching the different stagings of this opera and this one is the most striking and haunting.

[@genevieveyevdochenko9300]

Spectacle grandiose .grand opéra😘🎶🙏🐦🌈

[@da80]

Wow, this is breathtaking!

[@georgesclermont1911]

Minimalist production by the master of minimalistism. Very powerful!

[@cicop77]

What minimalist how? Maybe you jokingly?

[@adriangerardlopez9801]

The sound of the blade of the guillotine frightens me.

[@uwedornenburg3994]

Me as well, every time!

[@joseluisaltamirano1531]

how it's made?

[@addiforras]

@@joseluisaltamirano1531 the opera company I worked for used one of those big paper cutters, with the blade that swings down. Set a mic right next to it! Not sure how other companies do it, but it was effective for us!

[@joseluisaltamirano1531]

@@addiforras effective AND frightening!

[@jefolson6989]

It is supposed to terrify. And it does

[@erzelles]

Excellente mise en scène

[@Emjay1950]

Awesome opera ... makes the hair in the back of my neck stand on end and my eyes water ... so sad!

[@frdiemme46]

Il piu più bello spettacolo alla Scala dell'Era Muti ❤

[@motturismus]

Bellissimo... da brividi

[@simplyspeculation8259]

Extremely haunting. So beautiful.

[@thespanishinquisition8617]

My sixth grade teacher showed this to my class once, it always stuck with me.

[@Afroshoujo]

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiæ, vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevæ, Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle. Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte; Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende. O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

[@luz_estrela]

Amen

[@genevieveyevdochenko9300]

Grandiose🎶🙏🌈🎧

[@jacktaggart2489]

Searing; Brilliant; Overwhelming.

[@ewastanecka5985]

How many likes should I give ... no number...

[@theoketos]

May we live as they died.

[@fredericgarcia9703]

Sublime !

[@marilenagirolami1979]

Sante Martiri di Dio, pregate per noi!

[@Jbm0230]

When I performed this it was one of the darkest times in my life. Then the pandemic happened.

[@Luca-gj9xn]

You are very good and Poulenc is really brilliant. My choir sang "Les Tisserands" in quarantine style. Write this down in the research. You will love it for sure: Corale Novarmonia - Les Tisserands (F. Poulenc)

[@jonathans5939]

always finds this finale super powerful

[@robertd.carver6240]

Very effective revised staging. Perhaps not as emotionally impactful as that described in the libretto which traditionally has the sisters exit before we hear the offstage sound of the guillotine blade, until the voices are reduced in number one-by-one, until only one is left, leaving it to the imagination of the audience, but still musically impressive.

[@santuzza1971]

Goosebumps😍

[@agentorange153]

I'm an atheist, but I can't help admiring the courage of these nuns as they went to their death!

[@agentorange153]

@@confiteordeo3863 I would beg to differ -- in World War 2, many Russian atheists were willing to die for their country, and I personally am willing to die for the cause of fighting against jihad, if need be! So, an atheist can still be willing to die for an ideal, IF said atheist is a patriot!

[@yurizivago3641]

MAGNIFICHE

[@maddie6694]

Such awesome staging

[@JK-xz6mj]

The qualifier "powerful" is so overused, but could be used here.... what staging!!!!!

[@user-gl7qx1ww6r]

chills chills chills.

[@marcellaberaldi5059]

Brividiii

[@michelegiovetti6678]

Le coriste della Scala sono strepitose

[@jgesselberty]

A very creative staging, to be sure. But, a little too clinical. Yes, the deaths of these nuns is left to the imagination, but versions where there is a crowd, and they walk the final walk to the guillotine (off stage) portray the horror much better.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Exquisito

[@jefolson6989]

Compared to the Met version the bare stage is so much more impact full. This is better sung and played. I can only hear this once a decade. Devastating.

[@ewastanecka5985]

How many hearts should I give ...?

[@pituso1977]

Brutal

[@genevieveyevdochenko9300]

❤❤❤😘🌈

[@johnnynoirman]

Heavy!

[@PInk77W1]

St Therese • pray for us

[@michaelheintz8853]

Hairraising!

[@polyphemous]

The staging of this is amazing but is ruined by focusing on the individual instead of the whole. To have seen the decimation of these women from afar would have been far more powerful, in my opinion.

[@justaguyinny]

The camera director completely missed the point of the remarkable and moving staging.

[@ANFeuerstahl]

Ungeeignete szenische Lösung. Wenn die Musik entfernt wird, ist es möglich, die Vorstellung zu haben, dass die zum Scheitern verurteilten Nonnen Tai Chi Chuan praktizieren und nicht guillotiniert werden.

[@sylviawillink4717]

waar is die guillotine?

[@niuldo]

Che tristezza quando i figuranti rubano la scena agli artisti del coro. Dopotutto la fatica la fanno i coristi, ma in scena ci sono le comparse!!!😢😢😢

[@taizecellist]

refugees welcome

[@ClarkRahman]

This staging is horrendously camp. Vocals are amazing. They are doing that acting exercise to roll around like burning sausages.

[@ClarkRahman]

Harpist here is A+

[@bm4114]

@@ClarkRahman it’s been a year have you grown up any, or are you still a presumptuous little s***?

[@ciatro]

I regret the lack of respect of the stage director for the author and for the opera.

[@bm4114]

Get over it.

[@ciatro]

@@bm4114 I can't. I like too much this story of nuns murdered in the guillotine, not practicing something like an absurd tai-chi session; but at least we have the music. No one can mess that up.

[@canyou7670]

​@@ciatrotai chi😂

[@bobbymkd457]

Shouldn’t this be more subtle and piano at moments? The Dutch opera did it much better...

[@bm4114]

It’s been two years, are you still an a**hole?