The Breasts of Tiresias

Music by Francis Poulenc and Lyics by Gillaume Apollinaiare

Gender norms pop like balloons in The Breasts of Tiresias, Poulenc and Appollinaire's bawdy surrealist romp. Frustrated with the life of a housewife, Tiresias sheds her breasts and becomes the male General Tirésias. As she leads a new life fighting distant wars on foreign battlefields, her stay-at-home husband discovers a way to make babies on his own - but not just one: 40,049 of them. This delightfully sugar-coated pill coats the sublime in the ridiculous.