Name: La Voix Humaine and Dido & Aeneas
Start: 2024-07-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Lesher Center for the Arts

Admin

Festival Opera

Soprano

Carrie Hennessey

The woman

Conductor

Robert Mollicone

Pianist

Stage director

Céline Ricci

Kindra Scharich

Dido

Lila Khazoum

Belinda

Tenor

Matthew Lovell

Aeneas

Mezzo-soprano

Sara Couden

Sorceress

Lily Bogas

Second woman

Taylor Thompson

First sailor

Zachary Gordin

Orchestra

Festival Opera Orchestra

Others

Festival Opera Chorus

English

French

La Voix Humaine and Dido & Aeneas

Walnut Creek

United States

Lesher Center for the Arts

Hofmann Theatre

La Voix Humaine and Dido & Aeneas: La Voix humaine Poulenc (+1 More)

Public

Staged

Opera

The Human Voice

Dido and Aeneas

Samrat Sen

Approved

A double-bill of short operas written 270 years apart, yet similar in themes of love and betrayal. Both Elle and Dido suffer the devastating consequences of heartbreak. Their stories resonate across time, bringing the audience in-close as they share these deeply human experiences.


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Described by Poulenc as “a musical confession,” La voix humaine (The Human Voice) is an extraordinary one-woman show is dramatically riveting, emotionally raw, and achingly personal. Poulenc’s setting of Jean Cocteau’s fierce drama takes audiences to a place where they are eavesdroppers and voyeurs. Elle, the tragic heroine, is having one final phone call with her longtime lover, who is abandoning her for another. Elle’s voice is all we hear of their conversation—and from feigned indifference to panic and despair, her every emotion is searingly conveyed.

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Based on Book IV of Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid, Dido and Aeneas is one of the earliest known English operas, and one of the most performed operas from the Baroque period. Dido the Queen of Carthage falls in love with the Trojan warrior Aeneas, yet scheming sorcery and spells doom their fate. Hear the abandoned and heartbroken queen conclude the epic tale with one of opera’s most memorable laments.

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