Lille Opera
LE MEDIUM / LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS
Menotti & PoulencIntroduction
Two contrasting operas created in New York and in Paris respectively in 1947 are combined here on the same bill in the course of the same evening. In the
words of the composer of Le Medium, "the opera describes the tragedy of a woman caught between
two worlds, a real world that she doesn’t understand and a supernatural world she can’t
believe in". There is then a complete change of atmosphere with Les Mamelles de Tiresias, in which Poulenc sets an adaptation of Apollinaire’s burlesque words to his sensual music.
Cast
The artistic team
Bruno Membrey : Musical director
Olivier Bénézech : Director
Olivier Millagou : Stage design
Frédéric Olivier :
Eric Deltour : Chorus director
Price
Duration
2 hrs 30 mins (with interval)
Notes
LE MEDIUM : Music & libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti / Opera in deux acts / Created on the 1st may 1947 at the Barrymore theater, New York
LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS : Music by Francis Poulenc / Libretto based on the surrealist drama (1917) by Guillaume Apollinaire / Opera in two acts avec prologue
Created on the 3th june 1947 at the Opéra Comique, Paris
Production
Le medium - produced by la clef des chants/association régionale de décentralisation lyrique/région nord-pas de calais / les mamelles de tiresias - produced by the opéra toulon provence méditerranée revival from la clef des chants/association régionale de décentralisation lyrique/région nord-pas de calais
