Review: Castleton Festival's 'La Voix Humaine' and 'Otello'

Two major productions opened at Lorin Maazel's Castleton Festival in Virginia's Rappahannock Valley on Saturday. In the afternoon, in the festival's exquisite, small Theater House, there was the exquisite, small "La Voix Humaine" in two versions -- Jean Cocteau's 1930 play paired with Francis Poulenc's 1959 opera on Cocteau's libretto. A large hunk of the audience then drove themselves the mile or so over to the festival's main theater tent for a bite to eat and something to drink and to join th...