Jean Cocteau's monologues provide the inspiration behind an evening of opera and dance from ROH Associate Artist Aletta Collins and director Tom Cairns. They began to explore the inspirational synergy of music, dance and voice along with Cocteau’s themes of possession and abandonment in their dance film for Channel 4, ‘The Human Voice’. Now this programme commissioned by ROH2 develops these strands into live performance. In Duet for One Voice, a world-premiere, Collins re-imagines Cocteau’s monologue Duet for One Voice for dancers, with a newly composed score by composer Scott Walker. For the second, a new production sung in English, Tom Cairns stages Poulenc’s opera La Voix humaine (The Human Voice), which follows a woman’s desperate last telephone conversation with her departed lover. New ideas, reinterpretations, eclectic influences – this programme brings music and dance together with provocative drama in a unique and unmissable way. CREDITS DUET FOR ONE VOICE Choreographer Aletta Collins Composer Scott Walker LA VOIX HUMAINE Director Tom Cairns Composer Francis Poulenc Designer Tom Cairns Lighting Designer Charles Balfour PERFORMERS DUET FOR ONE VOICE Performers Conor Doyle Daniel Hay Gordon Omar Gordon HyeKyoung Kim Lorena Randi LA VOIX HUMAINE Conductor Garry Walker Orchestra Southbank Sinfonia Performer Nuccia Focile