POULENC
La Dame de Monte Carlo (7’)
Toréador (2’)
Corcardes (6’)
DUREY Trois Chansons Basques (4’)
AURIC Huit Poèmes de Jean Cocteau (19’)
MILHAUD Trois Poèmes de Jean Cocteau Op.59 (3’)
POULENC La Voix Humaine (40’) [semi-staged]
A voice. A telephone. A fractured love affair.
Claire Booth is joined by Grammy-winning pianist Christopher Glynn to present an immersive staging of Poulenc’s searing operatic melodrama. Take a seat at the heart of the action to absorb this most intimate operatic setting of Jean Cocteau’s ground-breaking play, eavesdropping on a life in the balance.
Opening with a bravura tour through a variety of songs influenced by Cocteau’s poetry, you are invited to a recital which becomes an opera like no other.
