Les Mamelles de Tirésias : Opéra-Bouffe in Two Acts and a Prologue

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By -- Francis Poulenc, Poem by -- Guillaume Apollinaire, English Prose Translation by -- Sherry Mangan

Published by -- Heugel : Theodore Presser Company Brynn Mawr PA, Sole Representative, 1954, Paris France, 21 Pages, Libretto Text in English and French on Facing Pages, Staple-Bound, Ex Libris, 10.5" X 6.8" X .1", 3 oz.

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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 Apollinaire. The opera was written in 1945 and first performed in 1947. Apollinaire's play, written in 1903, was revised with a sombre prologue by the time it premiered during World War I in France. For the opera, Poulenc incorporated both the farcical and the serious aspects of the original play, which according to one critic displays a "high-spirited topsy-turveydom" that conceals "a deeper and sadder theme – the need to repopulate and rediscover a France ravaged by war."

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