Opera in three acts and twelve pictures (1957)

Music and Libretto by Francis Poulenc
adapted from the play by GEORGES BERNANOS

Performed in French with German surtitles

Coproduction with De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam

Premiere:
19 January 2008, at 7 p.m.
Performances:
21 / 23 / 26 / 29 & 31 January 2008

Cast

Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Director: Robert Carsen
Set designs: Michel Levine
Costume designs: Falk Bauer
Choreography: Philippe Giraudeau
Lighting: Felipe Ramos/Jean Kalman

Marquis de La Force: Jean-Philippe Lafont
Blanche: Sally Matthews
Le Chevalier: Yann Beuron
Madame de Croissy: Marjana Lipovšek
Madame Lidoine: Heidi Brunner
Mère Marie: Michelle Breedt
Soeur Constance: Gaële Le Roi
Mère Jeanne: Elisabeth Wolfbauer
Soeur Mathilde: Christa Ratzenböck
L’Aumônier: Dietmar Kerschbaum
1er Commissaire: Eric Årman
2ème Commissaire: Daniel Schmutzhard
Le Geôlier: Klemens Sander
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Chorus director: Erwin Ortner)