LA VOIX HUMAINE
Thu Mar 8, 20:00 - Sat Mar 10, 21:00
Event is online
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Biblioteek Productions in collaboration with Youngblood Arts & Culture Development presents the first Opera in 1 Hour - Poulenc's one-woman masterpiece La Voix Humaine with the phenomenally talented Janelle Visagie.
La Voix Humaine (The Humaine Voice) is one-act, one-cast opera for soprano composed by Francis Poulenc. This work dating from the 1950s 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.
Cocteau also directed the opera and designed the scenery and costumes. The story is a women's last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else. Various events are spoken about, including an attempted suicide.
In our version of this magnificent work, the protagonist suffers from Dementia, and is constantly ebbing and flowing to reality. It is also a bird-eye view into the struggles that someone with this affliction is enduring: being trapped in one's own broken memories as you regress into an ultimate state of complete thoughtlessness.
Director I Magdalene Minnaar
Musical Director I José Dias
Video I Open Window Film Arts student under supervision of Pluto Panoussis
The Women I Janelle Visagie
Piano I José Dias
La Voix Humaine (The Humaine Voice) is one-act, one-cast opera for soprano composed by Francis Poulenc. This work dating from the 1950s 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.
Cocteau also directed the opera and designed the scenery and costumes. The story is a women's last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else. Various events are spoken about, including an attempted suicide.
In our version of this magnificent work, the protagonist suffers from Dementia, and is constantly ebbing and flowing to reality. It is also a bird-eye view into the struggles that someone with this affliction is enduring: being trapped in one's own broken memories as you regress into an ultimate state of complete thoughtlessness.
Director I Magdalene Minnaar
Musical Director I José Dias
Video I Open Window Film Arts student under supervision of Pluto Panoussis
The Women I Janelle Visagie
Piano I José Dias