La Voix Humaine LHeure Espagnole

A woman calls her exlover unable to let go of him She flatters despairs and blackmails in the hope that he will not hang up the phone The clockmakers wife takes advantage of her husbands absence to receive her lovers In Opera Zuids double bill of 20th century French masterpieces everything revolves around the female protagonists and their emotional development The oneact operas La Voix humaine Francis Poulenc and LHeure espagnole Maurice Ravel each lasting less than an hour present themselves as two sides of the same coin united by the same longing for connection to another human being