Name: Transformations of Desire: A Captivating Opera Double Bill
Start: 2024-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Philadelphia Film Center

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Curtis Institute of Music

Direction d'orchestre

Michelle Rofrano

Mise en scène

Eve Summer

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Curtis Opera Theatre

Baryton

Nathan Schludecker

Le directeur du théâtre

Soprano

Juliette Tacchino

Thérèse-Tirésias

Ténor

Erik Tofte

Mari

Morgan-Andrew King

Monsieur Lacouf

Evan Gray

Gendarme

Mezzo-soprano

Judy Zhuo

La Marchande

Landry Allen

Journaliste

Jackson Allen

Le Fils

Basse

Yulin Yan

Le Monsieur Barbu

Juliet Rand

La dame élégante

Shikta Mukherjee

La grosse dame

Katie Trigg

Anna I

Maya Mor Mitrani

Anna II

Mère

Hongrui Ren

Père

Frère II

Frère I

français

allemand

Transformations of Desire: A Captivating Opera Double Bill

Philadelphie

États-Unis

Philadelphia Film Center

Transformations of Desire: A Captivating Opera Double Bill: Les mamelles de Tirésias Poulenc (+1 More)

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Private

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Opéra

Les mamelles de Tirésias

Les Sept Péchés capitaux

Saurav Kumar

anglais

Valide

The Curtis Opera Theatre’s exciting season continues with a double bill featuring Francis Poulenc’s outrageously funny farce, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, alongside Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s darkly satirical “ballet chanté,” The Seven Deadly Sins, at the Philadelphia Film Center.  

Gender norms explode on the French Riviera in Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias), Poulenc’s surreal opéra bouffe. Thérèse, a bored housewife, grows weary of her daily routine and suddenly becomes the male General Tirésias when her breasts turn into balloons and float away. As they lead a new life fighting distant wars on foreign battlefields, their stay-at-home husband discovers a way to make babies on his own—but not just one: 40,049 of them. This clever comedy features a delightfully fizzy cocktail of opera, cabaret, and jazz, with a tale as consciously arty, feminist, and political as it is insightfully witty. 

Les Mamelles de Tirésias is sung in French with English supertitles.
Francis Poulenc, music and libretto  

A biting critique of industrial capitalism, Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins follows the perils of a woman sent away by her exploitative family to earn enough money to buy a house on the Mississippi River. In this sung ballet of split personalities, a singer (Anna I) and a dancer (Anna II) face down the seven deadly sins, each testing her wavering moral compass at every turn. This sardonic tale of sacrifice draws on the classic pop song and dance numbers of the 1920s and ’30s, blended with that quintessential Weill sound and a timeless commentary on values, virtues, and the “almighty dollar.” 

The Seven Deadly Sins is sung in German with English supertitles.
Kurt Weill, music
Bertolt Brecht, libretto

English

Transformations of Desire: A Captivating Opera Double Bill by Poulenc, Weill, Du (2024/2024), Dirigé par Eve Summer,, Chef d'orchestre Michelle Rofrano, Philadelphia Film Center, Philadelphie, États-Unis

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