A unique merger of two one-act operas
2018 · 2h 1m · Music, Drama
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and…
Director: Stéphane Metge, Stéphane Lissner
Writers: Béla Balázs, Jean Cocteau
Music by: Béla Bartók, Francis Poulenc