The shocking, swooshing sound of an offstage guillotine slicing through a nun, Madame Lidoine’s neck, followed by the resounding thump of sharp metal against wood halts the Salve Regina in its tracks.
Poulenc’s 1957 masterpiece stands the test of…
The shocking, swooshing sound of an offstage guillotine slicing through a nun, Madame Lidoine’s neck, followed by the resounding thump of sharp metal against wood halts the Salve Regina in its tracks.