Word: voix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little Help. Villa-Lobos' demanding score, unfortunately, has too little dramatic variety and characterization. The opera focuses on Yerma with such single-mindedness that only an extraordinary singing actress-and such types are rare-could bring it off. Poulenc made the same demand in La Voix Humaine, Jánaček in The Makropulos Case, Cherubini in Medea, Richard Strauss in Salomé and Elektra. All in some degree have paid the price in lack of performances. Yerma needs a soprano who can act like Maria Callas and sing like Leontyne Price. In Santa Fe it had Mirna...
...already played a decisive historical role in contemporary opera. His success with The Medium (1946) and The Telephone (1947), for example, may or may not have had an influence on such subsequent works as Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951) and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (1958), but they clearly helped create an audience for contemporary opera...