If you enjoy Beethoven’s Fidelio or Puccini’s Tosca then you will surely enjoy this rare opportunity to experience Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites in concert performance sung in English. A group of nuns must decide whether to submit to the French Revolution’s requirements to give up their religion – or face death by guillotine. One of the nuns is an aristocrat already fleeing the Revolution’s ruthless cull of privilege and this is our heroine who makes a last minute decision that will live long in the memory. With Poulenc’s gorgeous tuneful melodies and harmonies we are transported to a world in which being prepared to die for one’s beliefs is an everyday and very real choice?
