Volume 24, Number 3 · March 3, 1977
Martyrdom at the Met
By Garry Wills
Dialogues of the Carmelites
an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc, libretto drawn by the composer from a text by Georges Bernanos
At the Metropolitan Opera
The names that cluster near Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites provoke nostalgia for one educated in Catholic schools in the years following World War II—Gertrud von Le Fort, Georges Bernanos, Raymond Bruckberger. It is old home week for such oddly assorted Catholic heroes.
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