“Magnificently sung by Margaux Loire, soprano, and Robin Le Bervet, from the separation from her lover to the beaches of solitude to the point of no return.”
Cultures du cœur 12/01/2024
“There are moments when I am appalled by this intolerable child. … It is truly music composed in a second state.”
Letter from Poulenc to Pierre Bernac, 11 August 1958, quoted in L'Avant-Scène Opéra (Dialogues des Carmélites suivis de La Voix humaine), 1991, p. 136.
“Quelle comédie ? Allô ! Qui ? que je te joue la comédie, moi ? Tu me connais, je suis incapable de prendre sur moi.”
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“La Voix humaine was an astonishing experience for me, because I saw Francis Poulenc write it, page by page, measure by measure, for me, with his flesh and blood, but also with the wounds of my heart: we were both in the middle of a sentimental drama, we were crying together, and this Voix humaine was like a diary of our tears.”
Denise Duval, creator of the role Elle
L’Avant-Scène Opéra (Dialogues des Carmélites followed by La Voix humaine)
“Tu sais, quelquefois quand nous étions couchés et que j’avais ma tête à sa petite place contre ta poitrine, j’entendais ta voix, exactement la même que ce soir dans l’appareil.”
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