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Les Mamelles de Tirésias

Francis Poulenc

18 October 2012

November 2015

@Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, Netherlands

16 - 19 January 2014

@La Monnaie / De Munt

15 June 2013

@Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

14 June 2013

@Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

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Britten version for 2 pianos.

Libretto of Guillaume Apollinaire.

In 1958, Benjamin Britten programmed an opera by his friend Francis Poulenc for that year’s Aldeburgh Festival. His festival had a tradition of performing new opera – not just by Britten – and over twenty years, an established team of singers, directors and designers had produced many works for the first time in the atmospheric little Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh. Due to the space limitations Britten decided to arrange the orchestral score of Les Mamelles de Tirésias into a version for 2 pianos which he and Poulenc would play. Peter Pears took the role of the husband (transposed up for tenor) and there was also a new translation of the libretto made by himself, Britten and the singer/designer Colin Graham.

Distribution

Score arrangements Emily Hindrichs

Pianists Malcolm Martineau & Roger Vignoles (Aldeburgh), Roger Vignoles & David Smith & Edwige Herchenroder (Aix-en-Provence), Roger Vignoles & Philippe Riga (Brussels)

Stage director Ted Huffman
Choreographer Zack Winokur
Set & Costumes designer Samal Blak
Light designer Marcus Doshi

Thérèse / the Fortune teller
Ariadne Greif (Adleburgh) / Julie Mossay - Aoife Miskelly (Aix & Brussels) / Hrafnhildur Arnadóttir (Amsterdam)

The Theatre Director
Anthony Birnie (Aldeburgh) / Mathieu Gardon (Aix & Brussels) / Clément Dionet (Amsterdam)

The Husband
Matthew Morris (Aldeburgh) / Jean-Jacques L'Anthoën - Timothy McDevitt (Aix & Brussels) / Drew Santini (Amsterdam)

Monsieur Presto
Anthony Birnie (Aldeburgh) / Ronan Debois (Aix & Brussels) / Rubèn Plantinga (Amsterdam)

Monsieur Lacouf
J. Andy McCullough (Aldeburgh) / Romain Pascal (Aix & Brussels) / Olivier Trommenschlager (Amsterdam)

The Policeman
Johnny Hereford (Aldeburgh) / Guillaume Paire (Aix & Brussels) / Jorne van Bergeijk (Amsterdam)

A newspaper vendor
Louise Fenbury (Aldeburgh) / Sarah Laulan (Aix & Brussels) / Marta Herman (Amsterdam)

A reporter from Paris
Steven van Gils (Aldeburgh) / Samy Camps (Aix & Brussels) / Pierre Derhet (Amsterdam)

The Son
Tristan Stocks (Aldeburgh) / Benjamin Alunni (Aix & Brussels) / Mitch Raemaerkers (Amsterdam)

An elegant lady
Belinda Evans (Aldeburgh) / Aoife Miskelly - Julie Mossay (Aix & Brussels) / Zinzi Frohwein (Amsterdam)

A woman
Clare Presland (Aldeburgh) / Eva Ganizate (Aix) / Marie Cubaynes (Brussels)

Chorus soprano
Nathalie Morazin (Aix) / Caroline Jestaedt (Brussels) / Garce Carter (Amsterdam)

Co-production

A co-production of Snape Maltings, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with the support of enoa and the Cuture Programme of the European Union.