“...the most stunningly creative piece of television this week”
“...a searing portrait of a woman spurned”
★★★★★
BBC and the Royal Opera House present this new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and shot on location in Paris and London, with music from the Royal Opera House Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano.
DIRECTOR
James Kent
STARRING
Danielle de Niese
PRODUCERS
David Parfitt
Maurice Whitaker
Nikki Weston
COMPOSER
Francis Poulenc (from the play by Jean Cocteau)
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Laurie Rose
Originally based on Jean Cocteau's 1928 play, La Voix Humaine examines the change that the technology of the telephone was to bring to humans and how they conducted their relationships. Featuring only a single character, the woman known only as Elle, it has been regarded as a career-defining challenge and has attracted many actresses and singers since it was premiered.
La Voix Humane is a Trademark Films, Painted Doll and K418 Arts Production for BBC.