Francis Poulenc: La Voix Humaine
Lyrical Tragedy on a monodrama by Jean Cocteau
Pierre Jourdan, staging and artistic direction
Sets and Costumes: Jean-Pierre Capeyron
Anne-Sophie Schmidt, soprano
Ostinato Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud
Synopsis
A young and elegant woman in her messy bedroom answers the phone call from her lover who is about to leave her. During this final conversation, she tries to win him back, moving from tenderness to passion, from the threat of suicide attempt to calm, from regret to outbursts of violence.
A singular work subtitled “lyrical tragedy”, La Voix humaine was created two years after the Dialogues des Carmelites. Francis Poulenc composed this lyrical monologue for Denise Duval, his favorite performer, who created the role under the direction of Georges Prêtre, in a production and decor by Jean Cocteau, author of the libretto.
Setting to music the monodrama of his friend Cocteau in which the telephone became the protagonist o
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