Belgium’s premier new opera company Muziektheater Transparant is invited by the Beijing Music Festival to bring “La Voix Humaine” in a concept of director Wouter Van Looy, soprano Naomi Beeldens and pianist Joroen Malaise. This one-act opera for soprano and orchestra is composed by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) on the basis of a written work by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963).
LA VOIX HUMAINE
In a desperate telephone conversation, a woman makes a final attempt to get back her lover. She creates a web of words – fearful, yearning, hysterical – as a safety net in her struggle for survival in the face of the imminent void. The gradual realization that her lover has chosen once and for all to be with someone else drives her to despair, until the connection is literally broken.
In the staging by the soprano Naomi Beeldens and director Wouter Van Looy, the stage is a mind map in which props and chalk lines are the only tangible remains of a lost relationship. The woman, in an obscure, film-like space, seems to be staging her own death and obsessively keeping her love alive in endless repetition.
In the background, a dancer gives shape to the absent lover, while the pianist and composer Jeroen Malaise brings Francis Poulenc’s score impressively to life.
More info:
http://www.bmf.org.cn/EN/Performance/Detail/11
http://www.transparant.be/en/productions/lavoixhumaineEN-2017-2018
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