Round 12: Tossup 13

The only surviving excerpt from this composer’s incidental music to Léocadia is the song “Les chemins de l’amour” (“lay shuh-MAHN deh lah-MOOR”). The first act of an opera by this composer ends as a dying woman has a vision of a desecrated chapel; this composer’s wish that that opera be performed in the audience’s native language is sometimes ignored. In a monodrama by this composer, Elle calls her ex-lover before strangling herself with the phone’s cord. The last stanza of the “Veni Creator Spiritus” is sung by (*) Blanche de la Force after she reunites with Constance in an opera by this openly gay composer of La voix (10[1])humaine (“la VWAH oo-MEN”). At the end of an opera by this composer, a group of nuns stop singing the “Salve Regina” one-by-one as they are guillotined. For 10 points, name this member of Les Six (“lay SEESE”) who wrote Dialogues of the Carmelites. ■END■

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