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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.
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.
Poulenc’s one-act opera for solo soprano is an intense retelling of Jean Cocteau’s play of the same name. It offers an important theatrical and musical examination of somebody struggling with their mental health after a difficult break up, and the importance of communication.
Apr 14, 2022 · Cocteau and composer Francis Poulenc worked together to create the 40-minute, one-act opera in 1958. Pappano claims the play was written following ‘a torturous break up’ and Poulenc, too, had ‘just come out of a relationship’.
Poulenc’s one-act opera La Voix humaine is a setting to music of a play by Jean Cocteau. There is only one character, a woman (‘Elle’ [She, Her]), and the audience eavesdrops while she talks on the phone to her lover.
Giuseppe Verdi. View. A woman, Elle, is alone in her apartment. The phone rings. After several wrong connections, finally she hears the voice of her ex on the line. Gradually we learn details of their relationship and their recent break-up. Elle blames herself, and admits that she attempted suicide the night before.
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Mar 17, 2018 · Jean Cocteau’s La Voix humaine is clearly inspired by Duo à une seule voix by Anna de Noailles, of whom he was a fervent admirer. If the stories differ (in the first, the woman endures the end of a love affair whereas in the second she sidesteps the persistent advances of her lover), the two works share a number of similarities.
