Tickets go on sale this weekend for the Great Elgin Pipe Organ Tour’s finale concert to be held on Friday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m ...

Based on Jean Cocteau’s monodrama, Francis Poulenc’s 1958 opera La voix humaine presents the audience with one side of a telephone conversation between a jilted woman (“Elle”) and her ...

From vintage-inspired elegance to Riviera-ready glam, Day 5 of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival red carpet saw Hollywood’s finest serving iconic looks, redefining classic style, and cleverly navigating ...

Nothing was so amusing to French Composer Francis Poulenc as hearing his friends marvel at the quilt of contradictions that masked his music and his life. "I am half-monk, half-bounder," he ...

When Marble City Opera last offered Francis Poulenc’s one-act opera The Human Voice (La voix humaine) in 2017, it did so on a double bill with Menotti’s The Telephone. Just such a pairing, performed ...

The program will feature works by Florence Beatrice Smith Price (Piano Concerto in One Movement), Scott Joplin (The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag, and Elite Syncopations), and Francis Poulenc ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a double bill of French operas in a performance from 1981. It begins with ...

French Composer Francis Poulenc has a favorite religious scene: the painting by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) in one corner of which a small rabbit crouches unaware of the tragedy being unfolded on ...

Guest conductor Stéphane Denève led the Cleveland Orchestra on Thursday in elegant, witty, and transparent accounts of works by Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc, joined Steven Banks in ...

Their final act of courage and faith inspired Francis Poulenc’s well-known 1957 opera “Dialogue of the Carmelites,” based on the book of the same name written by famous Catholic novelist and essayist ...

Francis Poulenc's opera "Dialogues of the Carmelites," based on a text by Georges Bernanos, dramatizes their final days and unwavering faith.