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BERNANOS GEORGES - Dialogues Des Carmelites

Title: Dialogues Des Carmelites
Description: Editions Du Seuil, 1970. Paperback. Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition. Tightly bound, the pages are unmarked with age tanning. "Dialogues des Carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites) is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. The composer's second opera, Poulenc wrote the libretto after the work of the same name by Georges Bernanos. The opera tells a fictionalised version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who, in 1794 during the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation. "; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 186 pages. Very Good .

Keywords: Music > Opera Music Religion Drama

Price: US$ 22.25 Seller: Bytown Bookery
- Book number: 25313

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