ABOUT THE EVENT

In a clever pairing of two chamber operas by famed Italian-American and French composers Menotti and Poulenc, we’ll experience The Telephone and La voix humaine (The Human Voice) in the same evening.

In The Telephone, a man tries repeatedly to get his girlfriend's attention so he can propose. Phone glued to her ear, she refuses to disengage from her conversations until the man makes a call to her himself.

La voix humaine recounts a similar scenario, though this couple is a pair of former lovers. A story replete with deceit, suspicion, and confusion, we are left wondering the true nature of their relationship and what its failure means for us.

As our own world continues down a path of technological revolution—artificial intelligence and virtual reality becoming ever more ingrained—perhaps we can consider that which distracts us from the relationships in our lives that matter most.

PERFORMANCE DATES

January 31st at 7:00pm

February 1st at 7:00pm

VENUE

First Church in Jamaica Plain

6 Eliot St, Boston, MA 02130