OperaUpClose

Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose return to Kings Place with a new production of Poulenc and Cocteau’s astonishing La voix humaine. The 50-minute tour-de-force for solo soprano is, at its rawest and most intimate, a deeply personal work by a composer going through his own heartbreak. Poulenc and Cocteau had shared the perils and pleasures of early-20th-century gay life – including Nazi occupation – for decades by the time the composer tackled his friend’s hit play, and the result is a perfect marriage of words and music.