LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS
7 & 8 AUGUST / 21:30
OPERA / PERFORMANCE

PREMIERE

Myrsini Margariti - Maria Papapetropoulou - Maria Panourgia
“J’ai des yeux à la place des oreilles” (“I Have Eyes in Place of Ears”)
La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc

Based on Jean Cocteau’s monologue of the same title
“I’ve lived on you for fifty years,/ I spend my day waiting for you./ I think you’re dead when you are late,/ I die when I think of you as dead,/ I am revived when you come back,/ and then, when you are finally here,/ I die lest you leave…” One of the most heartrending works ever composed about the end of romantic love and the despair of being left, Francis Poulenc’s one-act opera, based on Cocteau’s La voix humaine (The Human Voice), will be presented for the first time at the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus, in a bold directorial concept by Maria Panourgia. Five dancers/actors, each shut up inside his or her own telephone box, round up a cast led by soprano Myrsini Margariti, as fellow travellers throughout the heroine’s anguish and dreams. The set design will reflect the heroine’s emotional rollercoaster to the sounds of Maria Papapetropoulou’s piano.


Greek surtitles (trans. Marios Ploritis) provided by Megaron - Athens Concert Hall La voix humaine / Music: Francis Poulenc / Text: Jean Cocteau © Ed. Durand With Greek and English surtitles