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

Organization

Admin

Curtis Institute of Music

Dirigat

Michelle Rofrano

Regie

Eve Summer

Others

Curtis Opera Theatre

Sänger

Bariton

Nathan Schludecker

Der Theaterdirektor

Sopran

Juliette Tacchino

Kartenlegerin

Tenor

Erik Tofte

Der Gatte

Morgan-Andrew King

Herr Lacouf

Evan Gray

Der Gendarm

Mezzosopran

Judy Zhuo

Die Zeitungsverkäuferin

Landry Allen

Ein Reporter aus Paris

Jackson Allen

Der Sohn

Bass

Yulin Yan

Der bärtige Mann

Juliet Rand

Die elegante Dame

Shikta Mukherjee

Die dicke Dame

Katie Trigg

Erste Anna

Tänzer

Maya Mor Mitrani

Zweite Anna

Die Mutter

Hongrui Ren

Der Vater

Zweite Bruder

Erste Bruder

Französisch

Deutsch

Transformations of Desire: A Captivating Opera Double Bill

Philadelphia

Vereinigte Staaten

Philadelphia Film Center

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

Public

Private

Staged

Oper

Die Brüste des Tiresias

Die sieben Todsünden

Saurav Kumar

Englisch

Genehmigt

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

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Besetzung

Ensemble