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

0% | Jun 01, 2018
Music Drama

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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John Relyea
Duc Barbe-Bleue
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Claude Bardouil
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Self - Conductor

Featured Crew

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Stéphane Lissner
Director
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Antoine Perset
Producer
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Denis Morlière
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Laurent Métivier
Producer
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Krzysztof Warlikowski
Stage Director
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Małgorzata Szczęśniak
Set Designer
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Felice Ross
Lighting Design
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Stéphane Metge
Director
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Béla Bartók
Music
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Francis Poulenc
Music
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Béla Balázs
Writer
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Jean Cocteau
Writer

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