Name: La Voix humaine
Start: 2021-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-03-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

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Singer

Soprano

Patricia Petibon

The woman

Conductor

Jérémie Rhorer

Stage director

Olivier Py

Lighting designer

Bertrand Killy

Costume designer

Pierre-André Weitz

Set designer

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Orchestra

Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

French

La Voix humaine -  (The Human Voice)

Paris

France

1st part - This production in 2 parts, offers a contemporary resonance to a seminal work of the 20th century. A “dialogue” between Poulenc and the composer Thierry Escaich.
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In 1958, two years after the Dialogues des Carmélites, Poulenc composed La Voix humaine, a work in one act and for a single female character, alone and faced with the disarray of a breakup. Composer with many facets and talents, with a rich orchestral writing nourished by resonances with the sacred, Thierry Escaich imposed himself here to compose a mirror piece to that of Poulenc. The challenge is to imagine the continuation of Poulenc's monologue in a renewed dialogue between Her and Him. After the words of Cocteau, those of Olivier Py,  with a modern verb, will offer a vision that is as human as it is humanist to the dialogue of the couple.
It is indeed dialogue that is in question here, that of two beings on the verge of rupture, that of words and that of two sensitive and profoundly modern musicians.

"THE HUMAN VOICE"
(Jean Cocteau / Francis Poulenc)
© Ricordi Ed. SA c/o Durand
Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing Film & TV
Point d'orgue © 2020 by Gérard Billaudot Editor

DISTRIBUTION
Jeremy Rhorer | direction
Olivier Py | Director
Pierre-André Weitz | sets, costumes
Bertrand Killy | lights

Patricia Petibon | She
Jean-Sebastien Bou | Him
Cyril Dubois | The other

Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orchestra

NEW PRODUCTION
Point d'Orgue was commissioned by the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Opéra de Dijon, the Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Opéra de Saint-Etienne and the Opéra de Tours.

Co-production Théâtre des Champs-Elysées | Dijon Opera | National Opera of Bordeaux | Saint-Etienne Opera | Tours Opera
With the support of the SACD – Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers
With the support of Covéa Finance
In partnership with france.tv

This show was the subject of an audiovisual recording
With the support of Madame Aline Foriel-Destezet

With the participation of La Caisse des Dépôts / Sponsor of the audiovisual broadcasts of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

The Human Voice by Poulenc, From (2021/2021), Directed by Olivier Py,, Conductor Jérémie Rhorer, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France

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