Name: La Voix humaine
Start: 2022-02-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-02-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Barbara Hannigan

The woman

Conductor

Presenter

Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Centre

French

La Voix humaine -  (The Human Voice)

London

United Kingdom

La Voix humaine Poulenc

Public

The Human Voice

English

Approved

Barbara Hannigan conducts, presents and sings Poulenc’s opera La Voix Humaine: a heart, a soul and a whole human life, in one devastating telephone call. 

‘Just a look could change everything … but with this telephone between us, what’s done is done. Don’t worry – no-one ever tries to kill themselves twice’. Alone in her bedroom, a young woman makes a call, as soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan brings all her artistry to a one-woman opera that connects straight to the heart. 

We don’t know who she’s calling, or the story that has brought her to stake everything on a single shaky connection – but as the one-sided conversation unfolds, we find ourselves living every tear, every memory and every bitter, desperate hope. La Voix Humaine turns a monologue by Cocteau into a drama that burns itself onto your memory. Who better to take the central role than Barbara Hannigan, a performer who charges everything she performs with the immediacy and honesty of life itself?

The Human Voice by Poulenc, From (2022/2022), Conductor Barbara Hannigan, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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