The Human Voice
Music by Francis Poulenc
Text by Isaiah Bell
Isaiah Bell, tenor
Roger Parton, piano
A vivid new production of a masterpiece. A story for our times.
In the original, a lone soprano sings into a telephone, frustrated by a technology that fails and distances and impairs any prospect of intimacy. Her lover advises that he has found another woman. We present a flip of gender, and a metaphor of global pandemic. Yet technology is once again enemy to intimacy.