Resumen de France: : Production of the opera ‘Les Dialogues des Carmélites’ banned on television
On 13 October 2015 the Paris Court of Appeal delivered a judgment which will prevent opera lovers seeing a screen version of ‘Les Dialogues des Carmélites’ produced by Russian artiste Dimitri Tcherniakov, as staged in 2010 and 2011 at the Munich opera house and recorded on DVD and Blu-ray. The judgment raises the question of the limits to freedom of adaptation and creation. The beneficiaries of the rights of Francis Poulenc, who composed the music, and Georges Bernanos, who wrote the libretto, felt that this production completely transformed and distorted the end of the work, and therefore applied to the courts for a ban on it being performed and on the videogram of it being shown. When the Paris court refused their application, they lodged an appeal.
