Glyndebourne: Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias

Recorded in 4K at the Glyndebourne Festival.

Prologue: The Theatre Manager announces the moral of the drama that the audience is about to witness: everyone must make more babies! Poulenc’s “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” is a giddy romp of an opera that throws questions of politics, gender and society up into the air and watches them shatter into hundreds of glittering pieces. Frustrated with her life as a housewife, Thérèse transforms herself into a man and heads out into the world, leaving her husband at home to take care of the baby-making.

Genre Opera
Recording location Glyndebourne Festival
Duration 61'
Video format 4K/UHD
Production Company Glyndebourne Festival, Maestro Broadcasting
Production year 2022
TV Director François Roussillon
Distribution TV EuroArts Music International
English title of music work Francis Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias. An opéra bouffe in a prologue and two acts, libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire
Composer Francis Poulenc
Orchestra / Band The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Robin Ticciati
Choir The Glyndebourne Chorus
Soloist Gyula Orendt (Theatre Director), Elsa Benoit (Thérèse), Régis Mengus (The Husband), Christophe Gay (Monsieur Presto), François Piolino (Monsieur Lacouf), Gyula Orendt (The Policeman), Loïc Félix (The Parisian Journalist), and more
Stage Director Laurent Pelly
Sets Caroline Ginet
Light Design Urs Schönebaum
Chorus Master Aidan Oliver