“Les Mamelles de Tirésias” (The Breasts of Tiresias), a comic opera by French composer Francis Poulenc, will be performed by the CSUSB Opera Theater Department on Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4, both at 7:30 p.m., at the university’s Performing Arts Recital Hall.

Written in Paris, during surrealism’s Golden Age, these absurdist delights unfold amid storylines that are as entertaining as they are strange. Inspired by the story of the Theban soothsayer Teiresias, the author inverted the myth to produce a provocative interpretation with feminist and pacifist elements. He tells the story of Thérèse, who changes her sex to obtain power among men, with the aim of changing customs, subverting the past, and establishing equality between the sexes.

“Les Mamelles de Tirésias” is based on the play of the same title by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism.
 
Join the CSUSB Opera Theatre for an evening of spectacular nonsense and fun, where nothing makes sense and the bizarre is king!

Tickets can be purchased online at the following link: GET TICKETS NOW. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Performing Arts Recital Hall box office from 1-4 p.m., Monday-Friday in Room 145 in the Performing Arts Building.

For more information, call the box office at (909) 537-7516.