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 Opera by Francis Poulenc. Libretto by Jean Cocteau. Solo performance by Tamara Gverdtsiteli. Stage Director: Dmitry Bertman. Musical Director: Valery Kiryanov. How does a woman with a broken heart behave? Jean Cocteau created the play "La voix humaine", as if he had cut out a piece of reality from life, expressing with words the state of a woman’s mind in moments of despair and hope... Meanwhile Francis Poulenc did the same with the help of music. And here we got one of the most expressive, heartfelt and beautiful works about love and solitude. In the monodrama "La voix humaine" only Her and Music is on stage. Poulenc did a great job to make the audience watch the unfolding drama as if enchanted. Jean Cocteau created «La voix humaine» in 1930 for Bertha Bouvi, a dramatic actress. Since then it has been included in the repertoire of many outstanding singers. In 1994 Dmitry Bertman staged this play for the "Helikon-Opera" prima - amazing Natalia Zagorinskaya. Later this role brought the young singer the glory of a legend of the opera scene.
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