By Michelle Hwu, Retail Co-ordinator
This spring at the Opera Shop at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, we're very excited to have a special selection of toy theatres from Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop in England: one being a presentation of Le nozze di Figaro, and the other being Cinderella. Internationally renowned for their whimsical toy theatres, Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop has been widening children's imaginations since the 1880s when the brand was founded by its namesake in London's Covent Garden.
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by Claudine Domingue, Director of Public Relations
For many people, the final scene of Poulenc’s opera Dialogues des Carmélites is one that they will never forget.
The emotional impact as each nun goes to her death singing the "Salve Regina" is heightened by the realization that this opera is based on true events.
On July 17, 1794, 16 members of the order of Carmel in Campiègne, France, were executed by guillotine. They included 11 nuns, three lay sisters, and two novices. Their names were as follows:
Prioress Madeleine-Claudine Ledoine (Mother Teresa of St. Augustine), 1752 – 1794 Marie-Anne Brideau (Mother St. Louis), 1752 – 1794 Marie-Anne Piedcourt (Sister of Jesus Crucified), 1715 – 1794 Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret (Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection), 1715 – 1794 Marie-Antoinette Hanisset (Sister Teresa of the Holy Heart of Mary), 1740 – 1794 Marie-Françoise Gabrielle de Croissy (Mother Henriette of Jesus), 1745 – 1794 Marie-Gabrielle Trézel (Sister Teresa of St. Ignatius), 1743 – 1794 Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville (Sister Julia Louisa of Jesus), 1741 – 1794 Anne Petras (Sister Mary Henrietta of Providence), 1760 – 1794 Marie-Claude Cyprienne (Sister Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception), 1736 – 1794 Marie-Geneviève Meunier (Sister Constance), 1765 – 1794 Angélique Roussel (Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost), 1742 – 1794 Marie Dufour (Sister St. Martha), 1742 – 1794 Julie Vérolot (Sister St. Francis Xavier), 1764 – 1794 Catherine Soiron, 1742 – 1794 Thérèse Soiron, 1748 – 1794
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Sara Fulgoni in the COC production of Bluebeard's Castle. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2001