Organization

Libretto

Gian Carlo Menotti

Jean Cocteau

Singer

Soprano

Miriam Zubieta

Lucy England

Baritone

Alejandro Lárraga Schleske

Ben Upthegrove

Stage director

Kay Kuntze

Conductor

Yuri Ilinov

Set designer

Elena Köhler

Dramaturge

Sophie Jira

Anne Preuß

The woman

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg Gera

Theater Altenburg Gera

La Voix humaine -  (The Human Voice)

Gera

Germany

Gera, Grosses Haus

Altenburg

Theaterzelt

The telephone or love for three / the human voice

Public

The Human Voice

The Telephone

Approved

1959 an der Pariser Opéra-comique uraufgeführt, demonstriert „Die menschliche Stimme“, dass mediale Kommunikation die reale nicht ersetzen kann. Francis Poul...

"The telephone or love for three / The human voice"

“Just one look could change everything. But now everything is over with this device. ”
The wife

Ben wants to propose marriage to his friend Lucy in her apartment. But every time he answers, the phone rings and Lucy picks it up. So he has no choice but to leave Lucy's apartment, go to the nearest phone booth and from there to bring his request forward.

A woman has been abandoned by her partner. Now she speaks to him on the phone and tries desperately to save the relationship after all. She tries to use the manipulative possibilities of media communication for her own purposes: first she plays the strong, then she refers to the allegedly happy past she shared and finally she threatens to commit suicide.

First performed at the Paris Opéra-comique in 1959, The Human Voice demonstrates that media communication cannot replace real communication. Francis Poulenc's (1899-1963) moving literary opera based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau is regularly on the repertoire of opera houses. Gian Carlo Menotti's (1911-2007) Opera buffa, premiered in New York in 1947, is also a classic.

English

The Human Voice by Poulenc, The Telephone by Menotti, From (2021/2021), Directed by Kay Kuntze,, Conductor Yuri Ilinov, Gera, Grosses Haus, Gera, Germany

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