Singing Poulenc in a sauna
Some composers are more obviously warm-blooded than others, and though you might dispute who comes low down in the temperature scale (Telemann? Boulez?) it would be hard to deny that Poulenc, the least...
View ArticleThe Martyrs of Compiègne: what really happened to the nuns slaughtered in...
Poulenc’s opera Dialogues des Carmélites (currently presented in a production by Robert Carsen at Covent Garden) is an intense study of The Order versus The Terror – how faith survives under...
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