A fully staged production of Francis Poulenc’s one-performer opera La Voix humaine comes to Music Town Dublin 2017, in an evening combining classical music performance and digital arts. The production is part of Francesca Placanica‘s artistic research project ‘En-Gendering Monodrama’, hosted at Maynooth University and supported by the Irish Research Council. Our production of La Voix humaine, for soprano, piano and digital sets contextualizes female sensibilities across visual arts and music throughout the twentieth-century, as imagined by Cocteau and Poulenc and embodied by their first muse Denise Duval. The second half of the evening will feature a lively selection of cabaret-style and musical theatre pieces by Benjamin Britten, Georger Gershwin and Cole Porter.
Tickets: 15 Euro; Concessions/Students: 10 Euro
When: April 8, 2017, 8 pm
Where: Lutherhaus, St Finian’s Church, 23 Adelaide Road
Who: Francesca, Aileen, Shane
What
“En-Gendering Monodrama Artistic Research and Experimental Productions” presents:
La Voix humaine and Other Voices
Music by Francis Poulenc, Libretto by Jean Cocteau
Music Town Festival 2017, Dublin
Lutherhaus, St Finian’s Church,
23 Adelaide Road
20:00, 8 April 2017
In collaboration with
Irish Research Council, Department of Music at Maynooth University, Dublin City Council
Elle: Francesca Placanica
Piano: Aileen Cahill
Producer, music consultant and artistic director: Francesca Placanica
Lights, video and set design: Shane Byrne
Original paintings and artistic consultancy: Astrid Morreale
Costumes and props: Jean Cronin Vintage Shop, Dublin
Trailer maker: Lacumbia Film, Turin
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