La Voix Humane; Fiançailles Pour Rire

Locations
Call Number: CD Opera Poulenc Voix
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor CDs, NEW Winter 2-week checkout	CD Opera Poulenc Voix	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Opera Poulenc Voix	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Program notes in English and French.
In 1958 Poulenc composed La voix humaine, a one-act opera for soprano and orchestra, based on the monodrama of the same name, written for the Comédie-Française by his friend Jean Cocteau. In this staging of the end of an amorous relationship, we hear only the woman's side of a final telephone conversation with the man who has abandoned her. The orchestra in this innovative work is used not only to unify the composition, but also to reveal what the voice, laid bare by a moving parlé-chanté style, does not say. Fiançailles pour rire and Chemins de l'amour, usually for voice and piano, but presented here in an orchestrated version by one of our finest conductors, Frédéric Chaslin, completes this eloquent rendition of works of a bittersweetness that Poulenc transcends like no other.
Frédéric Chaslin conducts the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia.
Les chemins de l'amour / music by Francis Poulence ; words by Jean Anouilh -- La voix humane / music by Francis Poulenc ; text by Jean Cocteau -- Les Fiancailles pour rire / music by Francis Poulenc ; words by Louise de Vilmorin.

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