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Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

"A unique merger of two one-act operas"

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”…

Top Cast

  • John Relyea

    John Relyea

    Duc Barbe-Bleue

  • Ekaterina Gubanova

    Ekaterina Gubanova

    Judith

  • Claude Bardouil

    Claude Bardouil

    Him (silent role)

  • Barbara Hannigan

    Barbara Hannigan

    Her

  • Esa-Pekka Salonen

    Esa-Pekka Salonen

    Self - Conductor

  • Paris National Opera Orchestra

    Paris National Opera Orchestra

    Self

Overview

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”…

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