{"id":214266,"date":"2026-04-29T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:02:18","slug":"review-barbara-hannigan-conducts-and-sings-la-voix-humaine-at-new-york-philharmonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214266\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Barbara Hannigan Conducts and Sings \u201cLa Voix Humaine\u201d at New York Philharmonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Friday\u2019s (4\/29) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/24\/arts\/music\/barbara-hannigan-la-voix-humaine-philharmonic-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Times<\/a>, Gabrielle Ferrari writes, \u201cThe most tantalizing kind of urban eavesdropping is a phone call overheard on the street\u2026. Such is the fascination of Francis Poulenc\u2019s operatic monodrama \u2018La Voix Humaine,\u2019 which like the Jean Cocteau play it is based on stages one side of a breakup call \u2026 It is onstage at David Geffen Hall this week, in a New York Philharmonic performance directed and conducted by, as well as starring, the soprano Barbara Hannigan. At the Philharmonic, \u2018La Voix Humaine\u2019 is paired with \u2026 Richard Strauss\u2019s \u2018Metamorphosen.\u2019\u2026 Hannigan led \u2018Metamorphosen\u2019 with sinuous and expansive gestures\u2026. Her self-conscious stylization was put to excellent use in \u2018La Voix Humaine.\u2019 The nameless woman\u2019s attempts at breezy intimacy give way to manipulations and increasingly brittle fantasy as she realizes that her lover is not returning\u2026. Hannigan has sung this part before, but in her multitasking role here she orchestrates the experience, binding the ensemble to her voice and gestures. What results is an astonishing technical and physical feat from her. She embodies and directs Poulenc\u2019s music with rigorous choreographic precision and splendid vocal variety. Her production includes video by Clemens Malinowski \u2026 Hers is an intelligent, off-putting and utterly spellbinding production, with a vicious irony that implicates and fascinates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Friday\u2019s (4\/29) New York Times, Gabrielle Ferrari writes, \u201cThe most tantalizing kind of urban eavesdropping is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48586,9,11,10,24524],"class_list":["post-214266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-conductors","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-repertoire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}