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    A French Double Bill

    A French Double Bill

    Presented by Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and Temple University at Temple University

    April 15-April 17, 2011


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    Temple University's award-winning Opera Theater will present a double bill of French masterpieces, both which premiered at the Opera-Comique in Paris. Maurice Ravel's L'heure Espagnole, first performed in 1911, is a comedy about the various romantic escapades of a clock maker's wife. Accompanying this one act opera is Francis Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tir'sias, which premiered in Paris in 1947 and is set in 1910. This surrealistic comedy involves, among many other things, a central character who decides she doesn't like the demands of womanhood and rids herself of them, becoming the husband. The husband, meanwhile, turns out to be a prolific producer of progeny, as he dons the role of the mother.

    This event is part of the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival Of The Arts (PIFA).


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        Temple University

        1801 N. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19122

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        April 15-April 17, 2011

        Times:

        Friday@ 7:30 pm and Sunday @ 3 pm

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