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Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (2018)
Directed by Stéphane Metge, Stéphane Lissner
“A unique merger of two one-act operas”
Music, Drama · 2h 01m
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”…
Cast
John Relyea
Ekaterina Gubanova
Barbara Hannigan
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Crew
- Director
- Stéphane Metge, Stéphane Lissner
- Writer
- Béla Balázs, Jean Cocteau
- Producer
- Antoine Perset, Laurent Métivier, Denis Morlière
Details
- Original title
- Poulenc: La Voix Humaine / Bartók: Le Château de Barbe-Bleue
- Release date
- 2018-06-01
- Runtime
- 2h 01m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- French, Hungarian
- Countries
- France, Germany
- Production
- Arthaus Musik, Opéra National de Paris, Telmondis