meganmariehart, 8 months ago to random

« Je me suis réveillée toute contente parce que
c’était un rêve, et quand j’ai su que c’était vrai,
que j’étais seule, que je n’avais pas la tête sur
ton cou, j’ai senti que je ne pouvais pas vivre. »

— Elle in Francis Poulenc’s opera La voix humaine

(I woke up all happy because it was a dream, and when I realized it was true, that I was alone, that I didn't have my head on your neck, I felt I couldn't live.)

🎨 Poster, S.R. Grieser, 2016

#operaQuote #artQuote #opera #poulenc #LaVoixHumaine

meganmariehart, 11 months ago to random

On this day in 2016 was the premiere of our « La voix humaine » in Detmold. It was the opera directing debut of my friend Karin Kotzbauer-Bode! The posters arrived late at the Landestheater Detmold, after the people who put them up had already left, and we ended up putting them up ourselves — a flashback to the first time I performed Francis Poulenc’s mono opera at Oberlin in 2006 as my master’s recital!

#LaVoixHumaine #Oberlin #Detmold #opera #Poulenc #operaSinger #memories

Black and white illustration of a woman's hand holding an old rotary dial telephone with the receiver lifted and not visible. Publicity image, detail from the poster for Karin Kotzbauer-Bode's production of Francis Poulenc's mono-opera « La voix humaine » 2016 in Detmold. Illustration: Stefan Romero Grieser
Black and white illustration of a dark-haired woman holding an old telephone receiver with a dial to her ear. Her lips are parted, her eyes are wide open and she is gazing into the distance. Publicity image, detail from the poster for Karin Kotzbauer-Bode's production of Francis Poulenc's mono-opera « La voix humaine » 2016 in Detmold. Illustration: Stefan Romero Grieser