Robert Carsen on COC's Dialogues des CarmÃ©lites

The terror of the French Revolution unfolds onstage in Dialogues des Carmélites, the opera by Francis Poulenc to be performed by the Canadian Opera Company beginning Wednesday.

Canadian director Robert Carsen, renowned for his interpretations of opera, premiered this production in 1997 at Nederlandse Opera and took it to Lyric Opera of Chicago and La Scala in Milan before bringing it to Toronto with the COC.

Carsen has been a favourite at the COC, helming productions of Orfeo ed Euridice and Iphigenia in Tauris in the past few seasons. Born in Toronto, Carsen is in demand as a director around the world.

Based on historic events, Dialogues des Carmélites tells the story of an order of Carmelite nuns who debate whether to allow themselves to be martyrs during the French Revolution.

Canadian stars Isabel Bayrakdarian, Judith Forst and Adrianne Pieczonka are among the large cast singing Poulenc's haunting score. More than 100 supernumeraries (i.e. extras) have been recruited to play the frightening mob of revolutionaries.

Carsen told CBC News Poulenc wrote the opera based on a screenplay by Georges Bernanos, which was in turn based on the novel The Last on the Scaffold or Song at the Scaffold by German novelist Gertrud von Le Fort.

The power of the piece comes from clever story-telling and a balance of intellectual dialogue with deep emotion, Carsen says.

"Poulenc turns the tension up in each act," he said. "It's a very unusual style of writing in that each scene is a mini-drama in itself – they are closely connected dramatically in the music. I've never come across anything like it."

Dialogues des Carmélites plays until May 25 in Toronto.

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