Pulcinella & La Voix Humaine, Saturday, Apr 4, 2020 7:30PM

Pulcinella

One hundred years ago, uber Impresario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned a ballet with song---a comedy with music by Igor Stravinsky and sets by Pablo Picasso. The result was a unique and glittering artistic gem----Pulcinella----the tale of a mercurial rogue who constantly interrupts other people’s romances because the ladies can’t resist him!

Dance…. Song…and an irresistible rogue!

The Dallas Opera celebrates the 1920 premiere with a new production in collaboration with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre ), a company that “again and again proves its place in contemporary dance.” (The Washington Post) Enjoy dancers internationally praised for their artistic excellence, versatility, and explosive energy---and three brilliant young singers

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.

La voix humaine (The Human Voice)

Experience this extraordinary one-woman show that is dramatically riveting, emotionally raw, and achingly personal. Poulenc’s setting of Jean Cocteau’s famous drama (played on stage by actresses including Ingrid Bergman) takes audiences to a place where they are eavesdroppers and voyeurs.

“Racette raises the emotional ante is every portrayal” ….as Elle, “she is mesmerizing from first to last, drawing us into her character’s increasing distress…as her life unravels around her.” - Chicago Tribune

Elle, the tragic heroine, is having one final phone call with her callous and longtime lover, who is abandoning her for another. Her voice is all we hear of their conversation---and from feigned indifference to panic and despair, her every emotion is searingly conveyed. Expect a tour-de-force performance from Patricia Racette, one of the world’s greatest singing actresses.

Production by The Dallas Opera Sung in French with English supertitles

By arrangement with Hendon Music Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes, company, Sole Agent in the U.S., Canada and Mexico for Casa Ricordi/Universal Music Publishing Ricordi S.R.L., publisher and copyright owner.

Starring:Patricia Racette, Lindsay Metzger, Matthew White, Richard Ollarsaba

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Synopsis

La Voix Humaine

As the opera begins, we find Elle in her apartment, distraught and distressed over the fresh breakup with her lover as she awaits his promised call. The phone rings, and thus begins the frustratingly halted conversation. Plagued by faulty phone line connections, Elle and her ex-lover are intermittently interrupted and eventually cut off as she revisits the fate of their relationship. Under the guise of small talk, she desperately tries to keep her lover on the line, even admitting her attempted suicide. Vacillating between cherished memories and painful realities, the conversation unfolds, revealing the magnitude of her despair. Courtesy of Chicago Opera Theater