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

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

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 1, 2018

Runtime

2h 1m

Genres

Music, Drama

Original Title

Poulenc: La Voix Humaine / Bartók: Le Château de Barbe-Bleue

Production Companies

Arthaus Musik, Opéra National de Paris, Telmondis

Director

Stéphane Lissner

Description

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”…