Streamed Performance Review: Patricia Racette’s Dramatic Elle in Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine” – June, 2019, Opera Philadelphia at the Elkins Estate
Note from William: The following is a review of a filmed performance of “La Voix Humaine”. In 1958, French composer Francois Poulenc set a short play by French poet/dramatist Jean Cocteau to music. Cocteau’s 1930 play was for a single character, a distressed woman engaged in a telephone call with a lover who has broken … Read more