Photo © Bernd Uhlig
Photo © Bernd Uhlig
Le Château de Barbe-Bleue / La Voix humaine
Palais Garnier - from 17 March to 11 April 2018
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Le Château de Barbe-Bleue / La Voix humaine
Opera Béla Bartók / Francis Poulenc
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Palais Garnier - from 17 March to 11 April 2018
1h55 no interval
Language : Hungarian / French
Surtitle : French / English
Opening night : 17 March
About
In few words:
I like being afraid... with you - La Belle, la belle et la Bête, Jean Cocteau, 1946
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”…
Bluebeard's castle
Opera in one act (1918)
Music :
Béla Bartók
Libretto :
Béla Balazs
Conductor :
Director :
La Voix humaine
Tragédie lyrique in one act
Music :
Francis Poulenc
Libretto :
Jean Cocteau
Conductor :
Director :
Set design :
Costume design :
Lighting design :
Video :
Choreography :
Dramaturgy :
Bluebeard's castle
Le Duc Barbe-Bleue :
Judith :
La Voix humaine
Elle :
Performances
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Gallery
Audio clips
Podcast | Le Château de Barbe-Bleue / La Voix humaine - Béla Bartók / Francis Poulenc
Media coverage
[…] il faut aller explorer ce passionnant diptyque.
Télérama, Sophie Bourdais
[…] Une réussite de haut vol
L’Obs
Deux sombres univers, mais un magnifique diptyque sur la passion amoureuse qui vous dévore et vous annihile
Culturebox, Lorenzo Ciavarini Azzi
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