During one orchestral interlude, the crowd slowly crossed the stage, leaving behind broken furniture and torn books, the detritus of the wrecked convent.
WSJ: Two 20th-Century Works That Still Shock and Awe | By Heidi Waleson | Salome | Dialogues des Carm��lites | Canadian Opera Company | Metropolitan Opera | Francis Poulenc | Richard Strauss | Atom Egoyan