Poulenc's La Voix Humaine
Penix and Howell's Women on the Line
March 5th and 6th at the UTSA Arts Cube
UTSA Arts Cube is an intimate black box-style space. Seating is limited to 50 tickets per show.
LA VOIX HUMAINE (The Human Voice) is a forty-minute opera for soprano composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958. Based on the play by Jean Cocteau, the story follows a woman having the last phone conversation with her lover. This opera is sung in French with English supertitles.
WOMEN ON THE LINE is a one-act opera that examines important moments in American history from 1920 to 2020, with women heralding these times through a pivotal means of communication - the telephone. This production is the premiere of Wesley S. Uchiyama Penix and Jourdan Laine Howell's second opera together.
CAST
Elle (girl)
Pianist
Director
Taylor Malcolm
Anna Hakobyan
Jourdan Laine Howell
CAST
Louise, 1920
Marilyn, 1940
Betty, 1940
Charlotte, 1960
R.W. Hines, 1960
Jennifer, 1980
Isabella, 2000
Conductor
Director
Composer
Librettist
Madeleine Phipps
Johanna Kitchen
Ana Mariñelarena
Emily Densmore
Abraham Gomez
Jessica Morales
Deeana Jaini-Malave
Jordan D. Boyd
Jourdan Laine Howell
Wesley S. Uchiyama Penix
Jourdan Laine Howell