Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is an opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, in a prologue and two acts based on the eponymous play by Guillaume...
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Les Mamelles (French pronunciation: [le mamɛl]) is an administrative district of the Seychelles, located in the south of the Greater Victoria (suburban)...
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Les Mamelles Lighthouse (French: Phare des Mamelles) is a strategically important lighthouse situated near Cap Vert, the westernmost point of Africa,...
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Deux Mamelles, Collines des Mamelles, or simply Mamelles are twin hills located in Ouakam, a suburban commune of Dakar, in the Cap-Vert peninsula, Senegal...
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Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias. Influenced by Symbolist poetry in his youth, he was admired...
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Manuel to the southeast . The larger of the Deux Mamelles volcanic hills in Dakar is topped by Les Mamelles Lighthouse at its highest point. Formed by a combination...
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The Breasts of Tiresias (French: Les mamelles de Tirésias) is a surrealist play by Guillaume Apollinaire. Written in 1903, the play received its first...
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government-appointed administrators. In 1998, two new districts (Roche Caiman and Les Mamelles) were created mostly from reclaimed land and from parts of Plaisance...
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musicologist Wilfrid Mellers finds music modelled on Offenbach's in Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias. The musician and author Fritz Spiegl wrote in 1980, "Without...
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Silhouette Island Ile du Nord Les Mamelles Ile aux Récifs Frégate L'Ilot Ile aux Vaches Vache Marine Chauve Souris Roche Canon Les Trois Dames Cocos Dans Trou...
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