le château de barbe-bleue / la voix humaine
Béla Bartók / Francis Poulenc
Bluebeard's castle
Opera in one act (1918)
- Music
- Béla Bartók
- Libretto
- Béla Balazs
- Conductor
- Ingo Metzmacher
- Director
- Krzysztof Warlikowski
- Le Duc Barbe-Bleue
- John Relyea
- Judith
- Ekaterina Gubanova
La Voix humaine
Tragédie lyrique in one act
- Music
- Francis Poulenc
- Libretto
- Jean Cocteau
- Conductor
- Ingo Metzmacher
- Director
- Krzysztof Warlikowski
- Elle
- Barbara Hannigan
- Set design
- Małgorzata Szczęśniak
- Costume design
- Małgorzata Szczęśniak
- Lighting design
- Felice Ross
- Video
- Denis Guéguin
- Choreography
- Claude Bardouil
- Dramaturgy
- Christian Longchamp
Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
Coproduction avec le Teatro Real, Madrid
French and English surtitles
about
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”…
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