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    La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958. The work is...
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    des Carmélites and La voix humaine worldwide, and numerous live and recorded performances of his songs and choral music. Poulenc was born in the 8th...
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  • Barber). Vanessa won its composer a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. 1959 La voix humaine (Poulenc). A short opera with a single character: a despairing woman on...
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    Elvira, Don Giovanni (Mozart) Elisabeth, Tannhäuser (Wagner) Elle, La voix humaine (Poulenc) Elsa, Lohengrin (Wagner) Emilia Marty, The Makropulos Affair (Janáček)...
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    Composed 1953–56, FP 159 La voix humaine, monodrama (1959), FP 171 Sinfonietta, FP 141 (1947) "Matelote provençale", variation for La guirlande de Campra,...
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    Terribles (1929); the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle...
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    Soprano Camille Poul on Opera Musica Camille Poul Opéra de Limoges La voix humaine -Poulenc - Camille Poul, soprano - Jean Paul Pruna, piano (YouTube) Portals:...
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    British stage première) Djamileh (Bizet) (2004) La vida breve (Manuel de Falla) (2004) La voix humaine (Poulenc) (2006) The Fortunes of King Croesus (Reinhard...
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  • The Human Voice (French: La voix humaine) is a monodrama first staged at the Comédie-Française in 1930, written two years earlier by Jean Cocteau. It...
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  • 1970 as Giorgetta in Il Tabarro and in a gala concert featuring Poulenc's La Voix Humaine, sung for the first time in French; and finally as Tosca in 1974...
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