23 Mar 2010
La Voix humaine/Herzog Blaubarts Burg, Oper der Stadt Köln
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/744e9b0e-369f-11df-b810-00144feabdc0.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/744e9b0e-369f-11df-b810-00144feabdc0.html
By Andrew Clark [Financial Times, 23 March 2010]
There is no more potent pairing in opera than Poulenc’s monodrama about a suicidal woman and Bartók’s two-hander about an abusive man.