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    Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is an opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, in a prologue and two acts based on the eponymous play by Guillaume...
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    afterlife they are denied any forward vision. The Breasts of Tiresias (French: Les mamelles de Tirésias) is a surrealist play by Guillaume Apollinaire written...
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  • The Breasts of Tiresias (French: Les mamelles de Tirésias) is a surrealist play by Guillaume Apollinaire. Written in 1903, the play received its first...
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    the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias. Influenced by Symbolist poetry...
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    Francis Poulenc (category Les Six)
    his scores for L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant and his first opera, Les mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias), a short opéra bouffe of...
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  • created the roles of Thérèse in Les mamelles de Tirésias, Elle in La voix humaine, and excelled in the role of Blanche de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites...
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    Laurent Naouri (category École Centrale de Lyon alumni)
    in his final year in June 1991 he appeared as the Director in Les mamelles de Tirésias. Naouri was born in Paris. His professional career in France began...
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  • by Apollinaire, both as subtitle and in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias: Drame surréaliste, which was written in 1903 and first performed...
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  • Orleans, Tchaikovsky, 1881 The Makropulos Affair, Janáček, 1926 Les mamelles de Tirésias Poulenc, 1947 The Man and Men, Joshua Goodman, 2010 The Man Who...
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    transcription), FP 45 Les animaux modèles, ballet (1941), FP 111 Les mamelles de Tirésias, opera (1947), FP 125 Dialogues of the Carmelites, opera (1957)...
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    Erik Satie; Les mamelles de Tirésias, an opera with libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire and music by Francis Poulenc, and L'enfant et les sortilèges, an...
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    supernatural, so they agreed on the word ″surrealist.″ The play, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, was created at the Maubel conservatory on June 24, 1917. The music...
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    out for his lyrical melodies. His first opera was Les mamelles de Tirésias (The breasts of Tiresias, 1947), on a text by Guillaume Apollinaire. It was...
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    Telephone, or L'Amour à trois by Gian Carlo Menotti, Thérèse in the Les mamelles de Tirésias by Francis Poulenc, the First Lady and Papagena in Wolfgang Amadeus...
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    Nationaux'. Notable premieres during this period included Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias (1947) and La Voix humaine (1959). However, by the end of the Second...
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  • about the "Reign of Terror" during the French Revolution. 1947 Les mamelles de Tirésias (Francis Poulenc). Poulenc's first opera is a short surrealist...
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    Charles Denner (category Actors from Centre-Val de Loire)
    Jean Vilar, impressed by Denner's performance at Les mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias), called him four years after he left Vilar to join...
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    Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917. Major surrealists...
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    manière de Chabrier, based on Chabrier's piano piece Mélancolie. Poulenc said that he had L'étoile in mind while he wrote Les mamelles de Tirésias. Huebner...
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    seriously wounded in 1916. While recovering in Paris, he wrote Les Mamelles de Tirésias and coined the word Surrealism in the program notes for Jean Cocteau...
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    Der Kaiser von Atlantis (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Opera Center performed the work (in a double bill with Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias) in November 2015. The Dutch M31 Foundation made a small documentary...
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  • Jacques Hivert (category Conservatoire de Paris alumni)
    created in the Salle Favart, the role of the son in Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias alongside Denise Duval, a partner he will often work again with...
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  • embodied the husband in Francis Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, at the Festival de la Meije, and his role in the premiere...
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  • (Faust by Charles Gounod) in Edinburgh The Director and Presto (Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Francis Poulenc) at the Feldkirch festival in Austria, Marcello...
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    sound-effects, in the première of Apollinaire's «surrealist drama» Les Mamelles de Tirésias. Accordionist & Dancers Back side Feminine Nude & Dog Guitarist...
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  • Christian Boesch (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    and the same season sang Monsieur Presto in the Met premiere of Les mamelles de Tirésias (directed by John Dexter). In 1983, he appeared again at that theatre...
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  • Chalmers. Long Beach Opera presented it with another surreal opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias in 2012. It was filmed for Czech television in 1998, directed by...
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  • Hockney) of "Parade" (Parade/Les mamelles de Tirésias/L'enfant et les sortilèges, 1981) and "Stravinsky" (Le sacre du printemps/Le rossignol/Œdipus rex, 1981)...
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  • 2022 : A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten, Opéra de Lille 2022 : La Voix Humaine / Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Poulenc, Glyndebourne Festival 2022 : Lakmé...
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  • Simon Keenlyside (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride Macbeth in Macbeth Gendarme/Le directeur in Les Mamelles de Tirésias Lescaut in Manon Lescaut Count Almaviva in The Marriage...
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