Growing up in Belfast in the 1950s and ’60s, I was aware of only two national identities: British and Irish. The British were Protestant and the Irish were Catholic. They looked and sounded exactly the same, but somehow “you could tell”.
Poulenc’s 1957 masterpiece stands the test of time
Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites may be grounded in French revolutionary terror but its tragic themes still resonate today.
tragically plays relevantly to audiences today.