The Met Opera: Dialogues des Carmelites (screening)
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Poulenc’s masterpiece. As the French Revolution begins, shy Blanche, sung by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, becomes a novice nun under an elderly prioress—Met legend Karita Mattila
Blanche’s aristocratic family flees the Terror, but she remains behind, struggling between her fear of the guillotine and her duty to the convent. When the nuns are expelled from the convent and threatened with death, Blanche must make an agonising decision. In the shatt
Sunday 12 May 2019 5pm
Running time: 190 minutes
Screening Ticket: £15
The McMillan Theatre
Bath Road
Bridgwater Somerset TA6 4PZ
Sun 12 May 2019