« 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.)
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!