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Thérèse rebels against her submissive life, becomes the male Tirésias, and leaves to wage a campaign against childbirth. Her husband vows to find a way to have children without women, then gives birth to 40,049 children in one day. Amid the resulting famine in Zanzibar, Tirésias returns in disguise as a fortune-teller; the couple reunite and the cast urges the audience to heed the lessons of war and have children.
Text compiled from Guillaume Apollinaire’s poems frames a meeting between Alice, a war correspondent, and Wilhelm, a soldier. Per Nørgård’s two-act chamber opera is written for two singers.
A surrealist two-act play in which Thérèse rejects procreation and changes sex to gain power among men, while her husband is made to bear 40,050 children; she later reconsiders.
Thérèse rebels against her submissive life, becomes the male Tirésias, and leaves to wage a campaign against childbirth. Her husband vows to find a way to have children without women, then gives birth to 40,049 children in one day. Amid the resulting famine in Zanzibar, Tirésias returns in disguise as a fortune-teller; the couple reunite and the cast urges the audience to heed the lessons of war and have children.
Text compiled from Guillaume Apollinaire’s poems frames a meeting between Alice, a war correspondent, and Wilhelm, a soldier. Per Nørgård’s two-act chamber opera is written for two singers.
A surrealist two-act play in which Thérèse rejects procreation and changes sex to gain power among men, while her husband is made to bear 40,050 children; she later reconsiders.