Leeds Grand TheatreLeeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS1 6NZ, Vereinigtes Königreich
Datum/Zeit in London Zeitzone
Programm
| Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) | La Voix humaine (New Production) | Libretto von Jean Cocteau |
| Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) | Dido and Aeneas (New Production) |
Darsteller
| Opera North | |||
| Wyn Davies | Musikalische Leitung | ||
| Aletta Collins | Regie | ||
| Giles Cadle | Bühnenbild | ||
La Voix humaine | |||
| Lesley Garrett | Sopran | Elle | |
Dido and Aeneas | |||
| Pamela Helen Stephen | Sopran | Dido | 2013 Feb 14 |
| Amy Freston | Sopran | Belinda | 2013 Feb 14 |
| Phillip Rhodes | Bass | Aeneas | 2013 Feb 14 |
| Nicholas Watts | Tenor | Sailor | 2013 Feb 14 |
LA VOIX HUMAINE
NEW PRODUCTION
Sung in English
Running time: approx 40 minutes
A woman is sprawled alone on her bed. ‘It looks like the scene of a murder’ said Jean Cocteau, who wrote the play on which Poulenc’s opera is based. But the woman isn’t dead. She gets up and makes to leave, when the phone rings. It is her ex-lover. During the next 40 minutes we hear one side of an increasingly desperate conversation in which the woman tries anything to win him back. But it’s no use – she can’t get through to him. He hangs up, and she’s left whispering ‘Je t’aime’ to nobody.
La voix humaine presented in a double-bill with Dido and Aeneas with a 25 minute interval between the productions.
NEW PRODUCTION
Sung in English
Running time: approx 40 minutes
A woman is sprawled alone on her bed. ‘It looks like the scene of a murder’ said Jean Cocteau, who wrote the play on which Poulenc’s opera is based. But the woman isn’t dead. She gets up and makes to leave, when the phone rings. It is her ex-lover. During the next 40 minutes we hear one side of an increasingly desperate conversation in which the woman tries anything to win him back. But it’s no use – she can’t get through to him. He hangs up, and she’s left whispering ‘Je t’aime’ to nobody.
La voix humaine presented in a double-bill with Dido and Aeneas with a 25 minute interval between the productions.
