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Francis Poulenc, Dialogues des carmélites, Acte I, Deuxième Tableau: Dialogue de Madame De Croissy (La Prieure) et Blanche de la Force - N'allez pas croire que ce fauteuil...

Teatro Real, Madrid
18 June 2006

Andrea Rost, Blanche de la Force

Jesus Lópes-Cobos, conductor
Robert Carsen - Michael Levine, direction

Synopsis: The pathologically timid Blanche de la Force decides to retreat from the world and enter a Carmelite monastery. The Mother Superior informs her that the Carmelite Order is not a refuge; it is the duty of the nuns to guard the Order, not the other way around.


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