La Voix humaine

Lyrical Tragedy in One Act 

“With this device, what’s finished is finished.”

A room, a bed, a telephone, some sleeping pills, and an abandoned woman: La Voix humaine is the lyrical monodrama par excellence, in which the means of theatre and music converge and merge in sparse expression. It is therefore also the ideal setting for an inquiry into the possibilities of music theatre through a work that must, beyond the classicism to which it is often confined, be restored to its original complexity: behind the smoke screen of everyday language, tragically trivial even in the lies it allows, the words of a poet then dealing with rehabilitation take us into a obscure netherworld of secret desires, a universe of symbols, dreams and hallucinations. A stage inhabited solely by the soprano and the pianist will showcase the conflicts and ambiguities of this dialogue between voice and accompaniment, drama and music, a dialogue that is also a love story.