D'après l'œuvre éponyme de Guillaume Apollinaire, 100 ans après sa création en 1917, voici une version condensée des Mamelles de Tirésias. Sur fond de guerre de 14, glissez dans ce « Drame Surréaliste ...

'Les Mamelles de Tirésias' by Guillaume Apollinaire was first performed in 1917. Over a century later the rebellious Thérèse finds her/his way to the Sheffield Drama Studio. Thomas Farrar reports.

Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Francis Poulenc’s first opera, was composed during the Second World War and was based on a surrealist play of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire. The musical world of ...

The title role in Francis Poulenc’s 1944 opera Les mamelles de Tiresias is not played by anyone onstage, but by the bag of balloons on director Dan Miller’s prop table. A pair of those balloons, ...

The eponymous appendages in Poulenc’s comic opera Les mamelles de Tirésias are deflated by their owner, Thérèse, on announcing she’s a feminist and wants to run the country – or go to war. She grows a ...

In Poulenc’s La Voix humaine of 1958, itself based on Cocteau’s earlier play, we witness one side of a phone call. We may hear the woman’s reactions to what the man on the other end of the line is ...