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

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

A unique merger of two one-act operas

2018 en 121 minutes

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Plot

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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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 Opera Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

Self

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