Sharpenicity

    Dialogues of the Carmelites   The Washington National Opera:     Nuns like you have never seen before Conversation heard in the audience before the performance about Lady Gaga at the Academy  Awards singing songs from Sound of Music, including   the anthem song, Climb Every   Mountain, with its expression of human longing for spiritual direction of the Benedictine postulant Maria von Trapp.     There was surprise that Lady Gaga could sing so well. There would be no surprise that the opera singers in Dialogues of the Carmelites would sing  superbly.   That is a given especially when Francesco Zambello is the artistic director.     These nuns would not be climbing mountains to reach their spiritual goals.  They would be climbing the scaffold to the guillotine to fulfill their vow.   The production now, in an age where beheadings are video-ed across the world on the...