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FULL La Voix humaine (Poulenc) TV-Opera Russia 1968 Nadezhda Yureneva
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: La Voix humaine
- Composer: Poulenc Francis
- Libretto: Jean Cocteau Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: TV-Studio, Russia
- Recorded: 1968
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Nadezhda Yureneva
- Conductor: M. Suslov
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Boris Blanc
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Soviet television. GOSTELERADIOFOND
- Date Published: 1968
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Love and hate, suffering and despair, contempt and hope – all this palette of emotions is concentrated in a female tragedy performed by the brilliant young Valentina Talyzina. We invite you to watch an unusual film directed by Boris Blanc, based on the mono-opera by the French composer Francis Poulenc, which he composed based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau.
The whole play consists of a telephone monologue of an abandoned woman with her lover, who will marry another tomorrow. With a voice trembling with tension, She begs him for something, cries, laughs, accuses and begs again. She is ready to forgive him and the other woman, and the lie. But the pipe falls out of her hands and…
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