La Voix humaine / 2022

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and shot on location in Paris and London.

The Human Voice / 2018

On a foggy afternoon, a woman who is lost in the middle of the countryside, finally reaches him on the phone. She calls him “darling” but has to give back his letters.

La Voix humaine / 1990

La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone. It represents one side of a conversation between a young woman (sung by American soprano, Julia Migenes) and her lover, who has jilted her. In a 1930s, Parisian apartment, a woman is seen making for the door. As she passes the telephone, it rings. From now on she sings, sitting, standing, on her knees, pacing up and down the room, pulling at the telephone cord, going through every emotion until ultimately, in despair, she takes her own life. Jean Cocteau wrote, it is not just that the telephone is sometimes more dangerous than the revolver but that its tangled cord drains us of our strength, while giving us nothing in return.

La voix humaine / 1971

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what he is up to without hurting her too much, hypersensitive as she is . All means are good: big words, cajolery, denial, lies. As for the woman, who senses that this is the end, she desperately tries to win him back, passing from tenderness to passion, from the threat of attempted suicide to calm, from regret to outbursts of violence.

The Human Voice / 2018

A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.

The Human Voice / 2021

A woman spends a surreal evening unraveling on the phone with her recently lost lover.

La Voix Humaine /

La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958 (Wikipedia). This is a version of it directed by Pierre Jourdan at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne.

La Voix Humaine / L’Heure Espagnole / 2021

A woman calls her ex-lover, unable to let go of him. She flatters, despairs and blackmails in the hope that he will not hang up the phone. / The clockmaker’s wife takes advantage of her husband’s absence to receive her lovers. In Opera Zuid's double bill of 20th century French masterpieces, everything revolves around the female protagonists and their emotional development. The one-act operas La Voix humaine (Francis Poulenc) and L'Heure espagnole (Maurice Ravel), each lasting less than an hour, present themselves as two sides of the same coin united by the same longing for connection to another human being.

Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle / 2018

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”…

The Human Voice / 20206.76 voti

Una donna guarda passare il tempo accanto alle valigie del suo ex amante (che dovrebbe tornare a prenderle, ma invece non arriverà mai) e a un cane irrequieto, che non capisce che il suo padrone lo ha abbandonato: sono due esseri viventi che affrontano l'abbandono. Nei tre giorni di attesa, la donna esce in strada una sola volta, per comprare un'ascia e una tanica di benzina. La donna attraversa tutti gli stati d'animo possibili: l'impotenza, la disperazione, e la perdita di controllo. Si trucca, si veste come se dovesse andare a una festa, pensa di buttarsi dal balcone, finché il suo ex amante non le telefona: ma è in uno stato di incoscienza, avendo preso un mix di tredici pillole, e non può rispondere alla chiamata. Il cane le lecca il viso finché non si risveglia. Dopo una doccia fredda, ravvivata da un caffè nero come il suo stato d'animo, il telefono squilla di nuovo e questa volta la donna riesce a rispondere.

Mysteries of the Human Voice / 2014