A most memorable evening with Barbara Hannigan and the New York Philharmonic:
Conducting and singing the single role in La Voix humaine simultaneously might run the risk of turning Francis Poulenc’s harrowing monodrama from 1958 into a self-conscious gimmick of virtuoso multitasking. In her New York Philharmonic performance, however, Barbara Hannigan forged not only those roles but acting, stage movement and live video into a single, tightly controlled dramatic line that held the hall in tense silence, punctuated by uneasy laughter. …
Filed under: Barbara Hannigan, Francis Poulenc, New York Philharmonic, review, Richard Strauss
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 