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Thirty years later Francis Poulenc made Tiresias into a strange but beautiful opera. The characters think it is set in Zanzibar though it really takes place in France, the whole cast marches grandly across the stage from time to time to remind the audience of the moral--"Make babies now!" --and audiences actually laugh at the opera's jokes. Last weekend the Lowell House Opera Society brought it to Boston with style and grace...
LOWELL HOUSE OPERA. Francis Poulenc's The Breasts of Tiresias, one of the funniest operas ever written. Caldwell Titcomb '47 calls it Tessie's Tits. And a concert version of Purcell's Indian Queen. Both Boston premieres...
BURDEN HALL. (B-School). Chorus Pro Musica. Vocal ensembles by Poulenc, Debussy, Couperin, Milhaud. Tickets: $2. March...
...other groups aren't as established. The Lowell House Opera Society, Harvard's only entry now that its Leverett House rival seems to have vanished, is doing a double bill of Purcell's Indian Queen and Poulenc's Breasts of Tiresias, a funny, approachable and lyrical work with an Apollinaire-libretto involving a couple of sex changes and a lot of non sequiturs...
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH. The Christmas Story, by Heinrich Shutz, and Christmas Motets, by Francis Poulenc, presented by Musica Sacra under the direction of Yuko Hayashi...