Die Brüste des Tiresias
Arrangiert für zwei Klaviere von Benjamin Britten
Text by Guillaume Apollinaire
Thérèse has finally had enough. No more cooking, cleaning, having children. She no longer wants to be inferior to men. Resolutely she frees herself from her feminine attributes, smokes, reads the newspapers - in short: becomes a man of the world and now calls herself Tiresias. Her husband, on the other hand, sees the future of the beloved patriarchal society go to waste. Drastic means are needed. So he develops a machine with the help of which he can bring over 40,000 children into the world in one day. Chaos is inevitable.
Francis Poulenc's weird, Dadaist musical comedy combines the sounds of classical opera with jazzy dance interludes. The satirical focus of the play is the question of whether and how a broken world should be granted offspring.
With this production, the Opera Studio embarks on a journey through the history of female empowerment, looks at the development of gender images over the centuries and gives our present day life a wink.
The performances take place at the Ottakringer Brewery - Hefeboden (Ottakringer Platz 1, 1160 Vienna).
Tickets are available at a price of € 25 and € 20
Cast
- Stage direction
- Maurice Lenhard
- Set and costume design
- Christina Geiger
- Lighting design
- Alex Brok
- Musical direction
- Rafael Salas Chía
- Klavier
- Rafael Salas Chía
- Klavier
- Karo van der Sanden
- Theresia / Die Kartenschlägerin
- Jaye Simmons
- Die Zeitungsverkäuferin / Die elegante Dame / Die dicke Dame
- Maria Hegele
- Der Gatte
- Stanisław Napierała
- Der Gendarm / Presto
- Pablo Santa Cruz
- Der Direktor
- Ben Connor
- Lacouf / Der Journalist
- Aaron Casey Gould
- Kinder / Volk von Sansibar
- Kamila Dutkowska
Photos and Videos
.jpg "Rafael Salas Chía (Musikalische Leitung), Karo van der Sanden (Klavier)")
.jpg "Sophie Wagner (Die Statue), Ben Connor (Der Direktor)")
.jpg "Sophie Wagner (Die Statue), Jaye Simmons (Theresia / Die Kartenschlägerin)")
.jpg "Sophie Wagner (Die Statue), Pablo Santa Cruz (Presto), Aaron-Casey Gould (Lacouf)")
.jpg "Stanisław Napierała (Der Gatte)")
.jpg "Stanisław Napierała (Der Gatte), Ensemble / Mitglieder des Jugendchors der Volksoper Wien")
.jpg "Ensemble / Mitglieder des Jugendchors der Volksoper Wien")
.jpg "Aaron-Casey Gould (Der Journalist), Stanisław Napierała (Der Gatte), Ensemble / Mitglieder des Jugendchors der Volksoper Wien")
.jpg "Jaye Simmons (Theresia / Die Kartenschlägerin)")
.jpg "Jaye Simmons (Theresia / Die Kartenschlägerin), Ensemble / Mitglieder des Jugendchors der Volksoper Wien")
.jpg "Jaye Simmons (Theresia / Die Kartenschlägerin), Stanisław Napierała (Der Gatte)")
.jpg "Maria Hegele, Kamila Dutkowska (Frauenliebe und -leben)")
.jpg "Kamila Dutkowska (Frauenliebe und -leben)")
.jpg "Sophie Wagner (Die Statue), Maria Hegele (Frauenliebe und -leben)")
Production Sponsor
Opera Studio supported by Christian Zeller
