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Dialogues des Carmélites FP 159 (1956) (in English)

Libretto: Francis Poulenc
Paul Daniel, English National Opera Orchestra, English National Opera Chorus, Ashley Holland (Baritone), Catrin Wyn Davies (Soprano), Peter Wedd (Tenor), Gary Coward (Baritone), Natalie Herman (Soprano), Felicity Palmer (Mezzo Soprano), Josephine Barstow (Soprano), Orla Boylan (Soprano), Sarah Tynan (Soprano), Jane Powell (Mezzo Soprano), Anne Marie Gibbons (Mezzo Soprano), Ryland Davies (Tenor), William Berger (Baritone), James Edwards (Tenor), Roland Wood (Baritone), Toby Stafford-Allen (Baritone), David Stephenson (Baritone)
℗ 2006
42 Tracks, 2:24:15

  • Act I

    • 1. Where is Blanche? (Chevalier de la Force, Marquis de la Force)
      07:24
    • 2. Blanche, your poor brother was so very impatient for your return (Marquis, Blanche de la Force, Chevalier)
      03:32
    • 3. Her poor imagination always flies from one (Marquis, Chevalier, Blanche, Thierry)
      01:43
    • 4. Dear father, there is no incident so small of unimportant (Blanche, Marquis)
      04:05
    • 4. Prelude
      01:42
    • 5. Do not believe this comfortable chair (Madame de Croissy, Blanche)
      03:09
    • 6. What has driven you here? (Prioress, Blanche)
      01:30
    • 7. My daughter, the outside world often questions (Prioress, Blanche)
      05:36
    • 8. Prelude
      02:37
    • 10. Oh no, not more beans! (Constance, Blanche)
      07:09
    • 11. Prelude
      02:11
    • 12. Would you be so kind as to raise my pillow? (Prioress, Mother Marie of the Incarnation)
      08:22
    • 13. You may get up, my child (Prioress, Blanche, Monsieur Javelinot)
      05:09
    • 14. Monsieur Javelinot, you must know it's customary in all our Houses (Prioress, Mother Marie)
      03:43
    • 15. Please inform your sisters they will have no chance to see the Reverend (Mother Marie, Prioress)
      03:14

  • Act II

    • 1. Qui Lazarum resuscitasti a monumento foetidum (Constance, Blanche)
      02:21
    • 2. What are you doing? (Mother Marie, Blanche)
      02:51
    • 3. Interlude: Dear Sister, I'm afraid that our cross is just a bit too big (Constance, Blanche)
      03:55
    • 4. My dear daughters, I don't need to remind you (Madame Lidoine, Mother Marie)
      05:41
    • 5. Ave Maria (Mother Marie, Carmelites, Prioress)
      01:45
    • 6. Interlude: What is going on? (Prioress, Constance, Mother Marie)
      02:11
    • 7. Prelude
      01:46
    • 8. Blanche, why do you behave like this? (Chevalier, Blanche)
      07:22
    • 9. Compose yourself, Sister Blanche (Mother Marie, Blanche)
      01:50
    • 10. My faithful daughters, I know that some among you already have heard (Chaplain, Carmelites)
      03:28
    • 11. But what will become of you? (Blanche, Chaplain, Sister Mathilde, Constance, Mother Marie, Prioress)
      02:51
    • 12. Someone is ringing the bell! (Constance, Sister Mathilde, Crowd, Chaplain, Carmelites)
      01:09
    • 13. Open the door, open the door now! (Voice from the Crowd, Mother Marie, First Commissioner, Second Commissioner)
      04:09
    • 14. My sisters, our Reverend Mother is coming (Mother Jeanne, Blanche, Crowd)
      01:59

  • Act III

    • 1. Father, speak to them (Mother Marie, Chaplain, Mother Jeane, Sister Mathilde)
      04:23
    • 2. There is only one vote against (Mother Marie, Sister Mathilde, Constance, Chaplain)
      03:12
    • 3. Interlude: Fellow citizens, we congratulate you all (Officer)
      02:22
    • 4. Interlude: Sister Gerald, we have to warn the priest as soon as possible (Prioress, Mother Marie)
      01:46
    • 5. Prelude
      01:54
    • 6. It's you! (Blanche, Mother Marie, A Woman's Voice)
      05:31
    • 7. My daughters, we have almost come to the end of our first night in prison (Prioress, Mother Jeanne)
      04:09
    • 8. And what of Sister Blanche? (Constance, Prioress, Sister Mathilde)
      00:36
    • 9. The Tribunal of the Revolution declares that the former sisters of the Order of Carmel (Gaoler)
      02:27
    • 10. My daughters, I wanted to save you (Prioress)
      02:08
    • 11. Interlude: It is done. The have been condemned (Chaplain, Mother Marie)
      01:55
    • 12. Prelude
      02:41
    • 13. Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae (Prioress, Mother Jeanne, Sister Mathilde, Constance, Carmelites, Blanche)
      06:47