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La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958. The work is based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau, who, along with French soprano Denise Duval, worked closely with Poulenc in preparation for the opera's premiere.
Feb 16, 2020 · Composer: Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (1899 - 1963) Piece: La Voix Humaine (1958) Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig ...more.
Francis Poulenc’s tour-de-force, one-woman opera gets a rare outing, directed by Cultural Medallion winner and WILD RICE's Founding Artistic Director Ivan Heng. The piece may just be one-act long, but the role of Elle is one of the most demanding ever written – perfectly captured here by soprano Jennifer Lien.
La voix humaine, FP 171 (Poulenc, Francis) This work has been identified as being in the public domain in Canada, as well as countries where the copyright term is life+50 years.
La Voix humaine, an unusual work subtitled “Lyric Tragedy”, was created ten years after Dialogues of the Carmelites. Francis Poulenc composed this operatic monologue for Denise Duval, his favourite singer, who created the role under the direction of Georges Prêtre, with staging and scenery by Jean Cocteau, who also wrote the libretto.
La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) by Francis Poulenc, is a tour de force for solo soprano, that has enthralled audiences around the world for more than half a century. Alone in her bedroom, Elle clings on to her ex-lover’s every last word on the telephone.
The Human Voice (French: La voix humaine) is a monodrama first staged at the Comédie-Française in 1930, written two years earlier by Jean Cocteau. It is set in Paris, where a still-quite-young woman is on the phone with her lover of the last five years.
