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Bright, bold and barking mad: Les Mamelles de Tirésias brings the house down in Glyndebourne's Poulenc double bill

Les Mamelles de Tirésias
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Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Elle)
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40,049 babies
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Régis Mengus (Husband), Elsa Benoit (Thérèse)
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François Piolino (Monsieur Lacouf), Christophe Gay (Monsieur Presto)
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“Pelly’s staging and Caroline Ginet’s set designs are packed with surprises”
Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 6 August 2022
Poulenc, La Voix humaine
Poulenc, Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Robin Ticciati, Conductor
Laurent Pelly, Director, Costume Designer
Caroline Ginet, Set Designer
Urs Schönebaum, Lighting Designer
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Jean-Jacques Delmotte, Costume Designer
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Elle
Elsa Benoit, Thérèse
Régis Mengus, The husband
Gyula Orendt, Theatre director, A gendarme
François Piolino, Monsieur Lacouf
Christophe Gay, Monsieur Presto
Loïc Félix, A reporter from Paris
Julie Pasturaud, Newspaper seller
James Way, The son
Amy Holyland, A woman
Rhiain Taylor, An elegant lady
Michael Ronan, A bearded gentleman
Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová
***11
All the world’s a jest: Falstaff returns to Glyndebourne
***11
A strong new Figaro opens at Glyndebourne
****1
Glyndebourne's Saul still packs a punch 10 years on
*****
Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal
****1
Glyndebourne’s season opens with Rossini’s Barber of Seville
*****
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