FULL Dialogues des Carmelites TV-Opera USA 1957 Leontyne Price, Elaine Malbin, Robert Rounseville, Patricia Neway
This presentation, sung in English, opened the 1957 season of the NBC Opera Company. The opera opens in the spring of 1789 in Paris, just before the French Revolution, and follows the Revolution’s impact on a group of Carmelite nuns who were eventually martyred. The personal story of Blanche De La Force and her entry […]
FULL Dialogues des Carmelites TV-Opera USA 1957 Leontyne Price, Elaine Malbin, Robert Rounseville, Patricia Neway
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Dialogues des Carmelites Composer: Libretto:   
- Composer: Poulenc Francis  
- Libretto: Francis Poulenc    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: TV STudio NBC, USA  
- Recorded: 1957
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Leontyne Price, Elaine Malbin, Robert Rounseville, Patricia Neway, David Lloyd, Rosemary Kuhlmann, William Wolff, Judith Raskin, Arthur Newman
- Conductor: Peter Herman Adler  
- Orchestra: Members of the Symphony of the Air  
- Stage Director: Kirk Browning  
- Costume Designer:   
Information about the Recording
- Published by: NBC  
- Date Published: 1957  
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs  
- Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
This presentation, sung in English, opened the 1957 season of the NBC Opera Company.
The opera opens in the spring of 1789 in Paris, just before the French Revolution, and follows the Revolution’s impact on a group of Carmelite nuns who were eventually martyred. The personal story of Blanche De La Force and her entry into the Carmelite order is highlighted.
This is a black-and-white copy of a color telecast. This series was formerly titled “NBC Opera Theatre.”
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As a young man I saw this opera on a local tv..it was grand and I still hear the grand voice of ms. Price..but the years go on.but you never forget a grand production like this..thank you for showing it..it brings back so many .memories of a grand era,