CENTRAL CITY OPERA -- THE BREASTS OF TIRESIAS (2011): Clip 1 - Thérèse to Tirésias

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Glimpses of Central City Opera's 2011 production of THE BREASTS OF TIRESIAS (Les Mamelles de Tirésias).

Music by Francis Poulenc
Libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire
Conductor: John Baril
Director: Ken Cazan
Choreographer: Ken Cazan
Assistant Director: James Darrah
Scenic and Projections Designer: Cameron Anderson
Costume Designer: Alice Marie Kugler Bristow
Lighting Designer: David Martin Jacques
Wig/Makeup Designer: Jason Allen and Ronell Oliveri
Associate Conductor: Adam Turner

CAST
General Directeur: Robert Gardner
Thérèse: Joanna Mongiardo
Le Mari: Daniel Belcher
Lacouf: Philippe Pierce
Presto: Jonathan Cole
Le Gendarme: Timothy J. McDevitt
La Marchande de journaux: Annie Rosen
Le Journaliste Parisien: Jonathan Winell
Le Fils: Brad Benoit
La Grosse Dame: Kaitlyn Costello
Le Monsieur Barbu: Brian Wehrle
La Dame Elegante: Alexandra Loutsion

Performed by the Central City Opera Festival Orchestra

Visit http://www.centralcityopera.org for more information.


Translation courtesy of Supertitlist Tom Getty:
(Therese):
Let's get rid of our breasts!

Well, what do you know?
Not only am I growing a beard,
But a mustache as well.
Damn, I look like a field of corn
Waiting for the mechanical reaper.

I feel like a real stud.
I am a stallion.
From head to toe, I'm a bull, or a toreador.
Let's not reveal all my plans just yet.
Heroes, hide your weapons.
And you, my less manly man,
Raise as big a ruckus as you like!

Husband: Give me some bacon...

Therese: Go stick your head in slop.

(Husband):
But this is not Therese my wife!
Who's this lout, and in her clothes?
He's a murderer! He killed her!
Therese! My little Therese! Where are you?
And you, you coward disguised as Therese, I shall kill you!

Therese: You're right, I'm no longer your wife.
Husband: You don't say!

Therese: And yet, I am Therese.
Husband: You don't say!

Therese: But Therese is not a woman.
Husband: That's too much!

Therese: Since I've become a handsome guy...
Husband: I hadn't noticed.

Therese: I shall take a man's name: TIRESIAS!

Husband: Toodle-oosias!

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