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With the Salve Regina on their lips, sixteen Carmelite nuns met their end at the guillotine on the Parisian Place de Grève on July 17, 1794. They’d been the defendants in a sham trial by the Jacobin Revolutionary Court, and were sentenced to death for their loyalty to the church. With each execution, the choir grew softer, ending when the last of the sixteen was murdered. Gertrud von le Fort’s novella Die Letzte auf dem Schafott (The Last at the … [more]

Verdi's masterpiece from 1847 is back at the Opernhaus Zurich. [more]