Peter Barbalov
ASIN: B00NH6TLFE
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 160
Esther and Venezia, Max and Abel, two young women and two young men, connected with peculiar love relationships, exceptional with their power, fierce with their depth. Esther is the intersection where all these loves meet and she has to make a decision, which will determine both theirs and her own faith. Esther is trying to avoid making this choice, she is afraid of its fatal finality but the three who are in love pursue her. They catch up with her on a July evening in 2006 on the premiere of the opera ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’ in Teatro Real in Madrid. The legendary opera diva R.K. makes her debut as Madame de Croissy, the prioress of the Carmelite monastery. In the final moments of her life she, too, must make a fateful choice – to die in deadly sin, or to give spiritual salvation to the youngest novice in the monastery. Quiet witness of this climactic evening is the imperishable ...