A woman. A broken heart. A telephone. French writer-artist Jean Cocteau knew that stripping a tale of love gone wrong down to these elements would create a theatrical canvas for emotions writ large.

While live, indoor opera has returned in cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, other opera companies are taking a more gradual approach. Some are waiting until November or ...

The phone rings. The opera begins. That’s an unwanted scenario that plays out nightly in opera houses around the world in this distracted age of cellphones. It is also the cue for the entrance of Elle ...

For the “Found” season, it has commissioned a series of 15 original performances – some given by artists in their own homes, but some staged in the empty “Theatre in the Woods", with social-distancing ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed Based on Jean Cocteau's play about a woman's desperate, final phone conversation with a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Poulenc's one act opera, La Voix Humaine will be presented at the 2021 KeyBank ...

For its latest musical adventure, Long Beach Opera requisitioned the basement of an old bank building downtown, vault and all. Now known as the Underground Club (part of the Federal Bar), the space ...

“You’ve been my only breathable air,” insists Elle, the terrified protagonist of Francis Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine.” Loneliness – the deep, soul-shattering realization that one is truly alone – is ...

Poulenc’s irrepressible warmth and melodic gifts are largely downplayed, though having the telephone’s ringing suggested via a trilling xylophone is a witty touch. Poulenc saw the piece as ...

Come to the cabaret. That’s the invitation that Long Beach Opera is extending with its current production of Francis Poulenc’s 1958 telephone opera, “La Voix Humaine” (The Human Voice). It’s Friday ...

We’ve all been there: on the phone to someone we’re infatuated with, aware that we’re being dumped but forlornly hoping to rekindle the flame. That’s the plot of Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (The ...

Twenty years ago, Lesley Garrett was an energetic and versatile soubrette at the London Coliseum, where her vivacious performances in the likes of The Cunning Little Vixen and Xerxes gave pleasure to ...