Three operas. Three emotional worlds. One shared humanity.
At its core is Francis Poulenc’s The Human Voice, a groundbreaking monodrama that strips opera back to a single voice and a heartbreaking breakup phone call between a woman and her former lover—raw, exposed, and devastatingly human.
The program continues with the Australian premieres of two contemporary works by internationally acclaimed composers Iain Bell and Jake Heggie. Bell’s Comfort Starving is a revolutionary portrait of teenage anorexia, capturing the physical and psychological turmoil behind an outward condition. Heggie’s Facing Forward / Looking Back explores a mother–daughter relationship shaped by memory, distance, and the search for understanding.
With no grand sets or spectacle, Triple Bill places the voice and the mind at the centre. This is opera at its most intimate – where emotional truth takes the stage.
