Opera Abbreviated: Poulenc's 'Dialogues of the Carmelites'

May 8, 201913:28Arts

Some operas inspire reverence beyond who gets kissed and who gets killed. Francis Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites is chief among them.

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