Visual for new premier at the Semperoper Dresden
- pollyinwonderland
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Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites — premiering at the Semperoper Dresden on 31 January 2026 — is based on the true story of the Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, executed during the French Revolution.
Sixteen women walk, singing, into death. Not as spectacle. Not as provocation. But as a question. You can now find more on website:
While working on this visual, I kept circling the same thought:
how do we live, knowing that this life might be all we have?
For the Carmelites, hope was rooted beyond death.
Today, that certainty feels distant — sometimes even unsettling.
And yet the questions remain painfully current:
Where do we place hope when the horizon feels empty?
What does courage look like when there is no clear promise of “after”?
And what price are we willing — or unwilling — to pay for meaning?
This project is not about answers.
It’s about staying with the tension.
About fear, dignity, belief, doubt — and the fragile human need to believe that our lives matter, even when they end.
Some images are not meant to decorate.
They are meant to ask.
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