Luigi Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Taken from the website of St. Joseph Carmelite monastery in St. Louis: Dialogues of the Carmelites This Saturday, June 14, at 2:00 P.M. in the Monastery Chapel, you are invited to hear the opera in English from Dialogues of the Carmelites. The understudies for the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis will perform. Admission is free of charge. Come join us and hear the inspiring story of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne who were guillotined during the French Revolution. I wonder how that will affect the poor sister on the other side of the altar trying to maintain her concentration during her Eucharistic adoration. But I think it's an interesting event - and a nice collaboration between the company and the convent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Therese Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Um, AWESOME :) Wish I owned my own private Concorde right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perigrina Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 That is a powerful opera and I imagine that could be an extremely effective setting for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marigold Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 One of my friends is in the London production of it this summer! I've not yet seen it on stage, but I've read it and it's got so many memorable lines. "We are not an enterprise for mortification or the preservation of the virtues, we are a house of prayer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Can't be certain, but almost always in a situation like this, the Blessed Sacrament will be reposed in a different location.... not that He'd mind watching the opera, but for the reason you suggest. It's a powerful opera... based on the 16 beatified Carmelite Nuns who offered their lives that the French Revolution might end.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perigrina Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Can't be certain, but almost always in a situation like this, the Blessed Sacrament will be reposed in a different location.... not that He'd mind watching the opera, but for the reason you suggest. It's a powerful opera... based on the 16 beatified Carmelite Nuns who offered their lives that the French Revolution might end.... It is fictionalized to make it "more dramatic" which really was not necessary. The truth is a very stirring story without an "improvements". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I COMPLETELY agree with you, Perigrina, but then, so was the story line of Song of Bernadette.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perigrina Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 That's show biz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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