Organization

Singer

Soprano

Camille Poul

The woman

Patrizia Ciofi

Elle

Tenor

Peter Tantsits

L'Autre

Stage director

Olivier Py

Conductor

Giuseppe Grazioli

Lighting designer

Bertrand Killy

Costume designer

Pierre-André Weitz

Set designer

Baritone

Lionel Peintre

Opéra de Saint-Étienne

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Orchestra

Orchestre Symphonique Saint-Étienne Loire

French

La Voix humaine -  (The Human Voice)

Saint-Etienne

France

Grand Théâtre Massenet

Public

The Human Voice

Point d'orgue

Approved

Elle / La Voix Humaine

La Voix humaine Poulenc (+1 More)

Saint-Étienne creates the event with the production of a world premiere, this version of La Voix Humaine augmented by a creation by Thierry Escaich and Olivier Py. Co-produced mainly with the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, this show was filmed last March on the Parisian stage due to sanitary conditions. The public of our city will therefore have the honor of discovering Patrizia Ciofi in La Voix humaine , a lyrical tragedy by Poulenc (1959), setting to music a monologue in one act by Cocteau, during which a woman lives live, on the telephone, the drama of the end of his love affair. An intuition since verified on the importance of technology in our contemporary human relationships. To this now classic work, is added Point d'orgue, by Thierry Escaich. The composer and organist responded to the challenge of adding a section to Poulenc's work. For this "fantasized extension", he naturally turned to his accomplice Olivier Py, in charge of the libretto and the staging, to give flesh to the male character that we do not see in Poulenc's work, and add a third character, working to rehabilitate the abandoned woman. Two additions that put the corporeal and the carnal back at the heart of the exchange, once the utopia of all-distance has been consummated.

English

The Human Voice by Poulenc, Point d'orgue by Escaich, From (2022/2022), Directed by Olivier Py,, Conductor Giuseppe Grazioli, Grand Théâtre Massenet, Saint-Etienne, France

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