A new Australian work, a major statement by a leading living international composer and a radical interpretation of a 20th century classic: experience SCO’s aesthetic mission in a single evening.

Poulenc’s La voix humaine is a shattering portrait of lost love – as heard through only one side of a dramatic phone call. Celeste Lazarenko will inhabit this woman with her characteristic emotional truth. Kaija Saariaho’s Quatre instants also maps the terrain of intoxicated passion, but from a 21st century female perspective: an ocean of sound unleashed from the voice of Emily Edmonds. Directed together by Clemence Williams, these vivid monodramas of desire will be complemented by Jack Symonds’s The Shape of the Earth starring Mitchell Riley and directed by Alexander Berlage.