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Les Mamelles de Tirésias

Francis Poulenc

January 07 to 13, 2011

108, 87, 65, 40, 15, 6 €
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Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Opera bouffe in one prologue and two acts by Francis Poulenc. Text by Guillaume Apollinaire. Premiered at the Opéra Comique on 3 June 1947

Soirée dada introduite par Jazz Suite n.1 - Foxtrot by Dimitri Chostakovitch. Creation: 24 mars 1934

Le Bœuf sur le toit
Ballet by Darius Milhaud. Scenario by Jean Cocteau. Premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 21 February 1920.

At age 18 Francis Poulenc met Guillaume Apollinaire at the premiere of the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias in the midst of World War I as the poet recovered from a wound on the front. A few months later, Apollinaire died and Poulenc, who often set his poetry to music, would always regret they did not have time to start a real artistic collaboration. Much later by the end of another war after reading anew the text of the play, he found that it would be suitable for the composition of a true opéra bouffe, with its satire of feminism, its scathing social purpose and its trivial characters transfigured by the extravagance of the subject: Does not Thérèse decide to change sex in order to become Tirésias?

“I think I prefer this work to all those I have written,” said Poulenc. “If one wants to get some idea of my complex musical personality, one will find me exactly as I am in Les Mamelles de Tirésias.”

Music direction, Ludovic Morlot • Staging, Macha Makeïeff • With Hélène Guilmette, Ivan Ludlow, Werner Van Mechelen, Christophe Gay, Loïc Felix, Thomas Morris, Marc Molomot, Jeannette Fischer, Robert Horn • Dancers, Henri Bruère-Dawson, Romuald Bruneau, Loïc Consalvo, Bràulio Do Nascimento Bandeira, Aurélien Mussard, Lilian, Nguyen Duy Nguyen • Orchestra and Choir of l’Opéra de Lyon

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Friday, January 7, 2011 - 8:00pm

Sunday, January 9, 2011 - 3:00pm

Monday, January 10, 2011 - 8:00pm

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 8:00pm

Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 8:00pm

Salle Favart

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Cast

Music direction
Ludovic Morlot
Staging, scenery and costumes
Macha Makeïeff
Lighting
Pascal Mérat
Choregraphy
Thomas Stache
Videos
Simon Wallon Brownstone
Musical assistant
Ulrich Metzger
Staging assistant
Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau
Scenery assistant
Claudine Bertomeu
Costume assistante
Claudine Crauland
Vocal coach
Futaba Oki
Vocal coach
Nicolas Jouve
Vocal coach
Graham Lilly
Biographie Helene Guilmette © Luc Robitaille
Thérèse / La Cartomancienne
Hélène Guilmette
Le Mari
Ivan Ludlow
Le Directeur de théâtre /Le Gendarme
Werner Van Mechelen
Presto
Christophe Gay
Lacouf
Loïc Félix
Le Journaliste parisien
Thomas Morris
Le Fils
Marc Molomot
La Marchande de journaux
Jeannette Fischer
Comédien
Robert Horn

Dancers, Henri Bruère-Dawson, Romuald Bruneau, Loïc Consalvo, Bràulio Do Nascimento Bandeira, Aurélien Mussard, Lilian, Nguyen Duy Nguyen
Figurant, Edgard Guilet

Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra de Lyon

Production, Opéra de Lyon
Co-production, Opéra Comique

Partnership

With the support of:
Le Figaro
Logo de France Musique

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