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Libretto

Gian Carlo Menotti

Jean Cocteau

Chanteur

Soprano

Miriam Zubieta

Lucy England

Baryton

Alejandro Lárraga Schleske

Ben Upthegrove

Mise en scène

Kay Kuntze

Direction d'orchestre

Yuri Ilinov

Décors

Elena Köhler

Dramaturgie

Sophie Jira

Anne Preuß

La Femme

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg Gera

Theater Altenburg Gera

La Voix humaine

Gera

Allemagne

Gera, Grosses Haus

Altenbourg

Theaterzelt

The telephone or love for three / the human voice

Public

Le Téléphone

Valide

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

La Voix humaine by Poulenc, Le Téléphone by Menotti, Du (2021/2021), Dirigé par Kay Kuntze,, Chef d'orchestre Yuri Ilinov, Gera, Grosses Haus, Gera, Allemagne

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