Breeding is a repeated theme in this work, as evidenced by the closing waltz and chorus encouraging the audience to have sex and by the unnamed husband's effort to create 40,049 babies in a single day.
Breeding is a repeated theme in this work, as evidenced by the closing waltz and chorus encouraging the audience to have sex and by the unnamed husband's effort to create 40,049 babies in a single day. Set in a the fictitious Riviera town of Zanzibar, this opera has its bizarre plot set off by the escape of two balloons, representing the title objects, from the lead female's dress, but things return to normal when the Gendarme returns to life and the protagonist, Therese, reveals that she regrets having switched gender roles with her husband. FTP, an Apollinaire play was the basis of what Francis Poulenc opera named for the feminine features of a hermaphroditic Greek prophet?
Breeding is a repeated theme in this work, as evidenced by the closing waltz and chorus encouraging the audience to have sex and by the unnamed husband's effort to create 40,049 babies in a single day.
The {Breasts of Tiresias} or Les {Mamelles de Tiresias}