La Voix Humaine
Work:: La Voix Humaine (S1992)
La voix humaine is a dialogue, but one in which the audience only ever hears one voice, as a woman and her lover agree to part during a single telephone conversation. Poulenc, in his most famous operatic work, creates a master piece out of the woman's growing realisation that it is all over, combined with her darkly comic frustrations with the telephone as a means of communication. While the central character of this piece is on the receiving end of a highly charged emotional break-up, she is neither passive nor pliant. While the man may have the upper hand in the romance, the strength of character, humanity and humour is definitely with the woman.
Production:: (T01030409903)
Opera on the Move presents two of the great mini-operas of the mid-20th century, both centred around a ground-breaking technology that transformed so many lives: Menotti's larger-than-life The Telephone and Poulenc's tragic masterpiece La Voix Humaine.
Listing:: L2018446123
Double bill with The Telephone
Production details
Opera on the Move presents two of the great mini-operas of the mid-20th century, both centred around a ground-breaking technology that transformed so many lives: Menotti's larger-than-life The Telephone and Poulenc's tragic masterpiece La Voix Humaine. Double bill with The Telephone
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