In a clever pairing of two chamber operas by famed Italian-American and French composers Menotti and Poulenc, we’ll experience The Telephone and La voix humaine (The Human Voice) in the same evening.

In The Telephone, a man tries repeatedly to get his girlfriend's attention so he can propose. Phone glued to her ear, she refuses to disengage from her conversations until the man makes a call to her himself.

La voix humaine recounts a similar scenario, though this couple is a pair of former lovers. A story replete with deceit, suspicion, and confusion, we are left wondering the true nature of their relationship and what its failure means for us.

As our own world continues down a path of technological revolution—artificial intelligence and virtual reality becoming ever more ingrained—perhaps we can consider that which distracts us from the relationships in our lives that matter most.