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Poulenc Norton Hale Operaupclose 2017
OperaUpClose return to Kings Place this summer with a new production of Poulenc and Cocteau’s astonishing La Voix Humaine. An intense 50-minute tour de force for solo soprano, this one-woman opera is short in length, but not in emotion. Alone in her flat, Elle is unravelling. Cradling the phone, she tries to put on a brave face for her ex-lover on the other end of the line, but despair and loneliness overwhelm her. This is opera at its rawest and most intimate, a deeply personal work by a composer going through his own heartbreak. Poulenc and Cocteau had shared the perils and pleasures of early-20th-century gay life – including Nazi occupation – for decades by the time the composer tackled his friend’s hit play, and the result is a perfect marriage of words and music. Performed by soprano Sarah Minns (OperaUpClose’s Olivier Award-winning La Bohème, The Marriage of Figaro and The Elixir of Love) and Richard Black on piano, and directed by OperaUpClose’s Artistic Director, Robin Norton-Hale, this is a devastating musical portrait of a human being on the brink of disintegration. Sunday 2 July - Sunday 20 August 2017 www.kingsplace.co.uk ‘Pathos and bathos are held in perfect balance’ ★★★★ Evening Standard
Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose premier their new English version of Tchaikovsky's sweeping Eugene Onegin at the Arcola Theatre in East London, this November. With a narrative that is both romantic and thought-provoking, the central character is the fiercely intelligent but naïve Tatyana, whose entanglement with Onegin results in a wiser, sadder but ultimately self-reliant heroine. This new chamber version will transpose the story of Tatyana’s sexual awakening to the early 1960s, a world on the cusp of the women’s liberation movement when new thinking fought against the old ways. Infatuation and self-control do battle in well-tailored world of sleek suits, with seasonal allusions to the snow-swept Russian landscape of the original. This is a coming-of-age story, a requiem for lost innocence and triumphant celebration of hard-won independence – told through some of the most glorious vocal music ever written. 'absorbing' The Guardian 'an honesty rarely seen in the opera house' Evening Standard 'fresh and inventive' WhatsOnStage ★★★★ 'energy and zest' Observer ★★★★ 'intense' The Times ★★★★ 'excellent' The Stage ★★★★ 'beautifully performed' Reviews Hub ★★★★ 'a Triumph' Plays To See ★★★★ 'a resounding success' Theatre Bubble CURRENTLY TOURING THE UK. More info: www.operaupclose.com/eugene-onegin
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