Philharmonia Orchestra: Jérémie Rhorer conducts in Paris

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Based on a true story at the time of the Terror, the masterpiece of Francis Poulenc is based on a screenplay by Georges Bernanos, itself inspired by a novel by Gertrud von Le Fort. The book was a huge success when it was created at La Scala in January 1957 and that of his first French Opera Garnier six months later (including the stage and vocal presence of Denise Duval and Regine Crespin). Yet it was risky to the mysteries of faith, an opera about which more is mainly used by female voices. But the emotional power of the text which Bernanos Poulenc retained the essential dramaturgical rigor and richness of musical language (Poulenc beautifully excels in the art of voice, passing the recitative most intimate to the most intense lyricism) make it one of the summits of the French opera of the twentieth century.

This profound and moving evocation of martyrdom served here for this new production by a plateau dream has indeed two worldviews opposed: one who believes in heaven and those who do not believe ... or more. Poulenc, both man deeply "religious" and composer "modern" was able to make in these Dialogues history issue of faith and mystery without denying the torments of the soul and the flesh in which mingled pride and humility, reflection and madness, fear and self-giving.