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From around the world: Paris. (International).(Opera Review)
The Chatelet opened its opera season with a double bill of Schoenberg's Erwartung and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine as an unabashed showpiece for Jessye Norman. This was an event of considerable media appeal, But after last season's disappointing Robert Wilson/Norman production of Schubert's Winterreise, expectations among even the soprano's most dedicated fans were not high. Tickets for the three performances were at a premium, and the final matinee (Oct. 13) played to a full house. On this occasion, Norman succeeded, with the help of Andre Heller's sober, effective productions and of David Robertson's musical rigor, leading the excellent Orchestre National de Lyon.
This was Heller's first opera staging. He met Norman while making a film (Night of the Prima Donnas); at that time, she proposed the idea of the collaboration. For Erwartung, he made the inspired choice of Mimmo Paladino as set designer. Primitive religious symbols and figures in earth tones created an atmosphere of suitably Freudian angst, helped by the director's precise, episodic lighting. The beturbaned Norman was a mass of nervous, stylized hand movements, giving the impression of a clairvoyant in a particularly troubled trance. In the Schoenberg, the Wagnerian thrust and power of her ...
- Le portrait de Manon/La voix humaine: Lyne Fortin (Elle) in the Opera Ontario...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Gooding, Wayne March 22, 2004 700+ words
...Massenet's Le portrait de Manon and Poulenc's La voix humaine has a strong logic. Besides the obvious French connection...jagged, rhythmically nervous score. Though short, La voix humaine made the evening.
- Poulenc: La Voix Humaine; La Dame de Monte Carlo. (Guide to Records).
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Mark, Michael March 1, 2002 700+ words
...operettas. This performance of La Voix Humaine is as good as Poulenc's telephone...musicianship, and attractive singing. La Voix Humaine can easily descend to hysterical...signs she isn't a native. La Voix Humaine Felicity Lott style is a riveting...
- Poulenc: La voix humaine.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada March 1, 2006 700+ words
POULENC La voix humaine Anne-Sophie Schmidt. Orchestre...Cocteau wrote his gripping monodrama, La voix humaine, for the Belgian actress, Berthe...Tiresias and Dialogues des Carmelites--La voix humaine premiered at the Opera-Comique on...
- Poulenc: La Voix Humaine.(Montgomery Theater, San Jose, California)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Belt, Byron February 8, 1997 700+ words
Opera San Josh's refreshing double bill of La Voix Humaine and Pagliacci demonstrated once more the remarkable excellence of this company. Within the confines of the small orchestra pit...
- Poulenc: La Voix Humaine.(Salle 5, Place de Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Markow, Robert January 17, 1998 700+ words
Poulenc's La Voix Humaine was this season's contemporary offering from L'Opera's de Montroal (seen Oct. 29). Though short in duration, this forty...
- Cincinnati.(La Voix Humaine)(Seven Deadly Sins)(Medusa)(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Gooding, Wayne September 22, 2003 700+ words
Cincinnati Opera's triple bill of Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine, Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins and William Bolcom's Medusa proved a showcase on a number of levels. First and foremost...
- Poulenc: La Voix Humaine.(Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Hastings, Stephen December 9, 1995 700+ words
...June 20) -- Cimarosa's II Maestro di Cappella, Menotti's The Telephone (sung in Italian) and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (in French). Baritone Claudio Desderi appeared onstage as the Maestro in the first work and conducted the other...
- Gran Teatre del Liceu: Le portrait de Manon/La voix humaine.(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Johnson, Victoria Stapells September 1, 2007 700+ words
...color here. After intermission, the theme of loneliness took a different twist in Poulenc's heart-wrenching La voix humaine, based on the play by Jean Cocteau. Angeles Blancas was memorable as the abandoned lover. In the midst of such...
- Opera director Maria Lamont made her European debut last season with Poulenc's...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada November 1, 2005 700+ words
OPERA DIRECTOR MARIA LAMONT MADE HER EUROPEAN debut last season with Poulenc's La voix humaine at Le Grand Theatre de la Ville du Luxembourg. Recently, she directed a remount of her production of Enoch Arden by Alfred...
- POULENC: La Voix Humaine.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide MARK, MICHAEL March 1, 2000 700+ words
...La Fenice is identified in the booklet as La Voce Umana. I was lucky enough to catch Olivero's 1971 French-language Voix Humaine with New York's Little Orchestra Society. She was totally possessed by this monodrama's suicide-prone heroine who...