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Les mamelles de Tirésias


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 Apollinaire. The opera was written in 1945 and first performed in 1947. Apollinaire's play, written in 1903, was revised with a sombre prologue by the time it premiered during World War I in France. For the opera, Poulenc incorporated both the farcical and the serious aspects of the original play, which according to one critic displays a
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as the prominent leader of Bohemian life in Montparnasse. Among his achievements were to bring to prominence the painter the Douanier Rousseau, and to invent the term "surrealism", of which he was a leading exponent. In June 1917 the audience for the first performance of Apollinaire's "drame surréaliste", "Les Mamelles de Tirésias", at a theatre in Montmartre included Jean Cocteau, Serge Diaghilev, Léonide Massine, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, and the young Poulenc. Many years later Poulenc said that
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though he had been immensely amused by the farcical piece it did not occur to him at the time that he would ever set it to music. Poulenc first set Apollinaire's words to music in his 1919 song cycle "La Bestiaire", and returned to the poet's work for the choral work "Sept chansons" (1936). During the 1930s he first thought of setting "Les mamelles de Tirésias" as an opera; in 1935 he adapted the script as a libretto, with the blessing of Apollinaire's widow
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Jean Giraudeau


Ferrando), "Les Indes galantes" (Valère), "Manon" (Des Grieux), "Madama Butterfly" (Pinkerton) "Les Mamelles de Tirésias" (le Mari) and "L'Heure espagnole" (Gonzalve). At the Paris Opera he made his first appearance two weeks after his Salle Favart, debut playing Tamino in "La Flûte enchantée", following this with David in "Die Meistersinger", Alfredo in "La Traviata", and created Nicador in "Bolivar", and sang the
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Emmanuel Chabrier


1975 study of the two composers, Delage wrote, "In truth there are few works by Ravel which do not to some extent echo one or another work of Chabrier and of which the harmonic procedures are not derived from him". Ravel paid explicit homage to Chabrier in his "A la manière de Chabrier", based on Chabrier's piano piece "Mélancolie". Poulenc said that he had "L'étoile" in mind while he wrote "Les mamelles de Tirésias". Huebner comments that the influence of Chabrier on Poulenc
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malgré lui", "Tosca", "la Bohème" (Musette), "Madame Bovary" (Emma), "Manon" (Manon), "Pelléas et Mélisande" (Mélisande). She also created the roles of Thérèse in "les Mamelles de Tirésias", Francesca in "le Oui des Jeunes Filles", Valentine in "ll était un Petit Navire", and the title role in "Dolorès". She sang Madame Fabien in the French premiere of "Vol de nuit (Volo di
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be for my "Stabat Mater" rather than the "Mouvements perpétuels"." In a centenary tribute in "The Times" Gerald Larner commented that Poulenc's prediction was wrong, and that in 1999 the composer was widely celebrated for both sides of his musical character: "both the fervent Catholic and the naughty boy, for both the Gloria and Les Biches, both Les Dialogues des Carmélites and Les Mamelles de Tirésias." At around the same time the writer Jessica Duchen described Poulenc as "a fizzing, bubbling mass
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a moral piece on the necessity of having children. Thérèse tires of her life as a submissive woman and becomes the male Tirésias when her breasts turn into balloons and float away. Her husband is not pleased by this, still less so when she ties him up and dresses him as a woman. Meanwhile, a pair of drunken gamblers called Presto and Lacouf affectionately shoot one another and are mourned by the assembled townspeople. Thérèse marches off to conquer the world as General Tiresias, leaving her captive husband to the attentions of the
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Marc Mauillon


"Le Balcon" and Pascal Dusapin's "Roméo et Juliette" at the Opéra-Comique; he also engaged in operetta with Jacques Offenbach's "La Vie parisienne" and Manuel Rosenthal's "Rayon des Soieries". Among the other roles he has played on stage, he embodied the husband in Francis Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias", Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande", at the Festival de la Meije, and his role in the premiere in Besançon of Offenbach's "La Valse perdue (the
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John Dexter


und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" (1979) and the triple-bills (both designed by David Hockney) of "Parade" ("Parade"/"Les mamelles de Tirésias"/"L'enfant et les sortilèges", 1981) and "Stravinsky" ("Le sacre du printemps"/"Le rossignol"/"Œdipus rex", 1981). For the Paris Opéra, he staged "Les vêpres siciliennes" (1974) and "La forza del destino" (1975). In Zurich, he produced "Nabucco" in 1986. John Dexter died in London, during heart
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Guillaume Apollinaire


Orphism (1912) is also his. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play "The Breasts of Tiresias" (1917), which became the basis for the 1947 opera "Les mamelles de Tirésias". Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic for "Le Matin", "L'Intransigeant", "L'Esprit nouveau", "Mercure de France", and "Paris Journal". In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded "", an artistic and literary magazine. Two years after being wounded in
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to enlist assistance for the orchestration from younger colleagues, such as Robert Irving, Humphrey Searle, Gordon Jacob, Alan Rawsthorne and Elisabeth Lutyens. One of three ballets commissioned for the Festival of Britain, Lambert's score is roughly contemporary with French composer Francis Poulenc's short comic opera "Les mamelles de Tirésias" first performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1947, on a similar sex-change theme, based on Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealist text of 1917. The premiere was conducted by the composer and given in the presence of
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Denise Duval


was discovered by Poulenc, rehearsing Cio-Cio-san the composer immediately recognizing her as the artist he was seeking for his first opera "Les Mamelles de Tirésias" that June; she worked closely with Poulenc for the rest of his life. Her repertoire at the Salle Favart went on over 20 years to cover the title role in "Angélique", la Périchole in "le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement", Giulietta in "les Contes d’Hoffmann", Concepción in "L'Heure espagnole", Alexina in "Le Roi
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Francis Poulenc


fortnight's stay, the two returned home on the first boat-train to leave London for Paris since May 1940. In Paris, Poulenc completed his scores for "L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant" and his first opera, "Les mamelles de Tirésias" (The Breasts of Tiresias), a short opéra bouffe of about an hour's duration. The work is a setting of Apollinaire's play of the same name, staged in 1917. Sams describes the opera as "high-spirited topsy-turveydom"
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André Cluytens


renewal of "The Tales of Hoffmann" in a fresh production in April 1948; Francis Poulenc was delighted with his part in the recording with Opéra-Comique forces of his "Les mamelles de Tirésias". Also notable was the revival after 180 years of "Blaise le savetier" (which was brought into the Salle Favart repertoire as a curtain-raiser for "La boheme", "Werther" and "La traviata"), and the French premiere of "The Rake's Progress" in June 1953. His
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1958 he told an interviewer, "When I was 24 I was able to write "Les biches" [but] it is obvious that unless a composer of 30 has the genius of a Mozart or the precociousness of Schubert he couldn't write "The Carmelites" – the problems are too profound." In Sams's view, all three of Poulenc's operas display a depth of feeling far distant from "the cynical stylist of the 1920s": "Les mamelles de Tirésias" (1947), despite the riotous
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David Hockney


1975, and "The Magic Flute" for Glyndebourne in 1978. In 1980, he agreed to design sets and costumes for a 20th-century French triple bill at the Metropolitan Opera House with the title "Parade." The works were "Parade", a ballet with music by Erik Satie; "Les mamelles de Tirésias", an opera with libretto by Guillaume Apollinaire and music by Francis Poulenc, and "L'enfant et les sortilèges", an opera with libretto by Colette and music by Maurice Ravel. The reimagined
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French opera


a variety of forms and styles, from the "Opéras-minutes" (1927–28), none of which is more than ten minutes long, to the epic "Christophe Colomb" (1928). The Swiss-born Honegger experimented mixing opera with oratorio in works such as "Le Roi David" (1921) and "Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher" (1938). But the most successful opera composer of the group was Poulenc, though he came late to the genre with the surrealist comedy "Les mamelles de Tirésias
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20th-century music


aneb snár" (1937) and Francis Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias" (1945). In the sixties, it should be noted, the Bernd Alois Zimmermann opera, "Die Soldaten" (1965), had a great impact. One of the most particular operas of the seventies was "Le Grand Macabre", by György Ligeti. It deals with the subject of mortality through irony and collage. The most internationally accepted post–World War II composer of operas was Englishman Benjamin Britten ("Peter Grimes
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Denise Duval


Denise Duval (Paris, 23 October 1921Bex, 25 January 2016) was a French soprano, best known for her performances in the works of Francis Poulenc on stage and in recital. During an international career, Duval created the roles of Thérèse in "Les mamelles de Tirésias", Elle in "La voix humaine", and excelled in the role of Blanche de la Force in "Dialogues of the Carmelites", leaving recordings of these and several other of her main roles. Duval attended the Collège de Libourne, appearing
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"high-spirited topsy-turveydom" that conceals "a deeper and sadder theme – the need to repopulate and rediscover a France ravaged by war." Guillaume Apollinaire was one a group of poets whom Poulenc had met as a teenager. Adrienne Monnier's bookshop, the "Maison des Amis des Livres", was a meeting place for "avant-garde" writers including Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon. Apollinaire, the illegitimate son of a Polish noblewoman, was described by the critic Edward Lockspeiser
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Jean-Paul Fouchécourt


, the four servants in the "Tales of Hoffmann" by Offenbach and le Mari in the "Mamelles de Tirésias" by Poulenc. He combines excellent musicality with a strong stage presence. After studying the classical saxophone and conducting, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt decided to become a singer after a workshop with Cathy Berberian in 1982. He began his career with Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie in 1986, having concerts in Europe, US, Soviet Union, South America, Australia and Japan. Jean-Paul Fouchécourt then went
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plot, is full of nostalgia and a sense of loss. In the two avowedly serious operas, "Dialogues des Carmélites" (1957) and "La Voix humaine" (1959), in which Poulenc depicts deep human suffering, Sams sees a reflection of the composer's own struggles with depression. In terms of musical technique the operas show how far Poulenc had come from his naïve and insecure beginnings. Nichols comments in "Grove" that "Les mamelles de Tirésias", deploys "lyrical solos, patter duets,
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Cecil de Blaquiere Howard


were exhibited the following months at the National Academy in Manhattan and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts of Philadelphia. In 1917, Howard befriended the poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire and in June of that year he played the role of the "People of Zanzibar", providing on-stage accordion music and sound-effects, in the première of Apollinaire's «surrealist drama» "Les Mamelles de Tirésias". During the inter-war period, Cecil Howard shared his time between France, England and the United States
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Pierre Albert-Birot


"Sons Idées Couleurs" ("Sounds Ideas Colors"), which featured writings by Futurists, Surrealism, and Dadaists. His first volume of poems was "Trente et un Poèmes de Poche" (1917). His novel "Grabinoulor" appeared in 1919. Albert-Birot directed the first performance of "Les mamelles de Tirésias" ("Tiresias's Breasts", 1917) by Guillaume Apollinaire, a friend who had also been a contributor to "SIC". He went on to compose numerous plays of his
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Paris in World War I


and was seriously wounded in 1916. While recovering in Paris, he wrote "Les Mamelles de Tirésias" and coined the word Surrealism in the program notes for Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie's ballet "Parade". He also published an artistic manifesto, "L'Esprit nouveau et les poètes". The war-weakened Apollinaire died of influenza during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Both Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, the most prominent French composers of the 1910s, were deeply distressed by
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that the music, while in the line of Offenbach, Chabrier and Ravel's "L'heure espagnole", impresses the listener with its stream of "miniatures and vignettes", dances (a valse for Thérèse, a polka for Lacouf and Presto) and pastiches from other lyric music such as ariettes in the style of "opéra comique" or chorales (after the duel). The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 June 1947 with costumes and décor by Erté. Poulenc recalled, "The ravishing sets
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Geraldine Decker


), Grandmother Burja in "Jenůfa", and Schwertleite in "Die Walküre" among others. In 1981 she portrayed the Large Woman in the Met premiere of "Les Mamelles de Tirésias", and was also seen that year as Annina in the premiere of the Colin Graham staging of Verdi's "La traviata"; a production which was broadcast nationally on "Live from the Met". Her last performance at the Met was as the Nurse in "Boris Godunov" on March 23, 1987 with Paul Plishka in
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Wolfgang Holzmair


Mélisande" brought him to general attention. His repertoire includes rarely performed works such as Henze's "Boulevard Solitude", Nigel Osborne’s "The Electrification of the Soviet Union", Hindemith's "Neues vom Tage" and Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias". More standard works include Richard Strauss's "Capriccio" (the Count), "Ariadne auf Naxos" (Harlequin and the Music Master), "Der Rosenkavalier" (Faninal); Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (Papageno and the Speaker
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Erté designed for the Opera-Comique with, in the Finale, those lamps in the style of a 1914 restaurant car, were exactly what I was after. As for the ladies' clothes, they were exact copies of the dresses (what at the time were called 'toilettes') that Erté had designed for Poiret's 1912 collection." The opera was revived in Paris in 1972, followed by Lille in 1985 and Saint-Étienne in 1989. Outside France it was seen in Massachusetts in 1953, Basel in
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English Opera Group


from other new works by Britten, the group commissioned and produced eleven other new operas by British composers. It also gave the British première of Francis Poulenc's opera "Les mamelles de Tirésias" in 1958. The group also performed older operas, such as "Acis and Galatea", "The Beggar's Opera", "Idomeneo", "Iolanta", "La rondine" and "Trial by Jury", and works by Henry Purcell and Gustav Holst. The Royal Opera, London took over management of the
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Modernism


majority of the population. Surrealism, which originated in the early 1920s, came to be regarded by the public as the most extreme form of modernism, or "the avant-garde of Modernism". The word "surrealist" was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play "Les Mamelles de Tirésias", which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917. Major surrealists include Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, Joan Miró,
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André Messager


one all too common to many composers of operetta – too close an adherence to repetitive rhythmic figures and four-bar rigidity", although such was Messager's "innate artistry that criticism on that score would be academic pedantry". One of the composer's distinguishing characteristics was a liking for chromaticism; this appealed to a younger generation of composers. His "Eh que ne parliez-vous?", from "La Basoche", was quoted note-for-note by Poulenc in "Les Mamelles de Tirésias".
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j'avais d'abord employé"]. He described "Parade" as "a kind of surrealism" ("une sorte de surréalisme") when he wrote the program note the following week, thus coining the word three years before Surrealism emerged as an art movement in Paris. Apollinaire fought in World War I and, in 1916, received a serious shrapnel wound to the temple, from which he would never fully recover. He wrote "Les Mamelles de Tirésias" while recovering from this wound. During this period he coined the
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Luca Canonici


Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Salzburg Festival, Opéra National de Paris, La Fenice, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro Regio di Parma, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In recent years his performances have included "Les mamelles de Tirésias" at the Macerata Festival and the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Paisiello's "Il barbiere di Siviglia" in Sassari; "Nabucco" at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano;
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Christian Boesch


Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production, conducted by James Levine. The next year, the singing-actor made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, as Papageno. He returned for the same opera in 1981 (now with Lucia Popp and Gail Robinson alternating as Pamina, and Zdzisława Donat as the Queen of Night), and the same season sang Monsieur Presto in the Met premiere of "Les mamelles de Tirésias" (directed by John Dexter). In 1983, he appeared again at that theatre for their Centennial Gala and
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Céline Scheen


London, where she obtained an advanced degree in vocal performance. She also takes masterclasses with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Monique Zanetti and Helmut Deutsch. Scheen has sung the roles of Lucy in "The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois" by Gian Carlo Menotti, Thérèse in the "Les mamelles de Tirésias" by Francis Poulenc, the First Lady and Papagena in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", Frasquita in Carmen, Vespetta in "Pimpinone" by Georg Philipp Telemann, Grilletta in "Lo Speziale" by Joseph
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Ronald Chase


Opera in 1975, Korngold's "Die Tote Stadt" at the New York City Opera in 1975, Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias" at the Opera Theater of St. Louis in 1983 and Strauss' "Die Frau ohne Schatten" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1984. Due to injuries Corsaro suffered during a car crash, Gerald Freedman replaced him in collaborating with Chase on a production of Ginastera's "Beatrix Cenci" that opened the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on September 10, 1971.
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Ainhoa Arteta


in "Carmen", Musetta in "Bohème" and Thérèse/The Fortuneteller in Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias" conducted by Levine. Her first London performance was in 1999 at a concert with Plácido Domingo at the Barbican Hall organized by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Her first performance at Covent Garden was in 2002 when she sang Musetta with Ramón Vargas as Rodolfo and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs as Mimì. Her first appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall was with Dolora Zajick and Plácido Domingo, with whom
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, and began sketching the music in 1939, with most of the composition done in a burst of creativity between May and October 1944. Although the play was written in 1903, by the time of its premiere France was in the thick of the First World War, and Apollinaire had revised the piece, adding a sombre prologue. Poulenc aimed to reflect both the farcical and the serious aspects of the play. The critic Jeremy Sams describes the opera as "high-spirited topsy-turveydom" concealing "a deeper and sadder
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1957, and at Aldeburgh in 1958 in an arrangement by the composer for two pianos (played by Poulenc and Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears sang the role of Thérèse's husband, transposed to suit his range.). Further local premieres took place in Philadelphia in 1959, New York in 1960, Milan in 1963, London in 1979, Düsseldorf in 1982, Tokyo in 1985, and at the Barcelona Liceu in its 2009-2010 season. In a short prologue, the theatre director introduces the work, promising the audience
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Der Kaiser von Atlantis


was presented in Denver, Colorado, by Central City Opera, in collaboration with other Denver organizations, in January 2013. The New Millennium Orchestra, in collaboration with the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, presented the opera in March 2013 on the Pritzker stage of Millennium Park. It was performed at Perth Hebrew Congregation, Perth, Western Australia, in June 2014, by Lostandfound Opera Juilliard Opera Center performed the work (in a double bill with Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias") in November 2015.
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Surrealism


a whole series of manifestations of the New Spirit that is making itself felt today and that will certainly appeal to our best minds. We may expect it to bring about profound changes in our arts and manners through universal joyfulness, for it is only natural, after all, that they keep pace with scientific and industrial progress. (Apollinaire, 1917) The term was taken up again by Apollinaire, in the preface to his play "Les Mamelles de Tirésias", which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.
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"Les Mamelles de Tirésias" ("The Breasts of Tiresias"), which was later adapted into an opera by Francis Poulenc. Antonin Artaud, an early Surrealist, rejected the majority of Western theatre as a perversion of its original intent, which he felt should be a mystical, metaphysical experience. He thought that rational discourse comprised "falsehood and illusion". Theorising a new theatrical form that would be immediate and direct, that would link the unconscious minds of performers and spectators in a sort of ritual event, Artaud
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Michael Best (tenor)


"Les mamelles de Tirésias" among others. In 1991 he created the role of the Bishop in the world premiere of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles". His last performance at the Met was on December 6, 1995 when he reprised the role of Toby Higgins. Other companies with which Best has sung roles include, the Santa Fe Opera and the Washington National Opera. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles
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Jacques Hivert


by side with Martha Angelici) were offered to him to interpret each evening, during an abundant secondary career within the , until the early sixties. Francis Poulenc, appreciating him, acknowledged him a "chic and admirable diction" - "Happy father who has such a gifted child", will write the great French composer about him. In 1947, Jacques Hivert recorded and created in the Salle Favard, the role of the son in Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias" alongside Denise Duval, a partner he will often
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Phyllis Curtin


sang the role of Thérèse in the American premiere of Francis Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias" at Brandeis University in 1953. She returned to Brandeis two years later to portray the title role in Darius Milhaud's "Médée". In 1956 she toured the United States with the NBC Opera Company as Countess Almaviva with Walter Cassel as the Count, Adelaide Bishop as Sussana, and Frances Bible as Cherubino. In 1957 she sang the role of Elena in Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Paride ed Elena" with the American Opera
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Christopher Alden (director)


opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, working as his assistant in Houston, Paris and Salzburg. In 1974, Alden staged his first opera productions in New York (Francis Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias") and Omaha ("La Traviata" and "The Barber of Seville"). More assignments followed during the 1970s at Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Dallas Opera as well as a continuing relationship with Opera Omaha. In 1982, Michael Milenski of Long Beach Opera engaged Alden to mount a
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theme – the need to repopulate and rediscover a France ravaged by war." With Mme Apollinaire's approval, Poulenc changed the date and setting from those of the original. "I chose 1912 because that was Apollinaire's heroic period, of the first fights for Cubism ... I substituted Monte-Carlo for Zanzibar to avoid the exotic, and because Monte-Carlo, which I adore, and where Apollinaire spent the first 15 years of his life, is quite tropical enough for the Parisian that I am." Kaminski writes
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local gendarme, who is fooled by his female attire. Off-stage, General Tiresias starts a successful campaign against childbirth and is hailed by the populace. Fearful that France will be left sterile if women give up sex, the husband vows to find a way to bear children without women. Lacouf and Presto return from the dead and express both interest and scepticism. The curtain rises to cries of "Papa!" The husband's project has been a spectacular success, and he has given birth to 40,049 children in a
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single day. A visiting Parisian journalist asks how he can afford to feed the brood, but the husband explains that the children have all been very successful in careers in the arts, and have made him a rich man with their earnings. After chasing the journalist off, the husband decides to raise a journalist of his own, but is not completely pleased with the results. The gendarme now arrives to report that, because of overpopulation, the citizens of Zanzibar are all dying of hunger. The husband suggests getting ration cards
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Albert Wolff (conductor)


a short while. While there, he conducted the first performance of Poulenc's "Les mamelles de Tirésias" (1947) and although he resigned from the position not long after he took it, Wolff continued to conduct occasionally at the theatre up until his death in 1970. He conducted 124 performances of "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the house, more than any other conductor. He also became associated with the Paris Opera where he became a conductor beginning in 1949. In 1960 he conducted the Ravel Piano Concerto in G
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Andrij Dobriansky


years he would tour more than a dozen cities throughout the United States annually, some for engagements of only one night, alongside other up-and-coming singers. Dobriansky made his Metropolitan Opera Company debut in on 11 February 1970 once again in Puccini's "La fanciulla del West", this time in the role of the miner "Happy". His repertoire of comprimario roles led to his becoming a staple in the Met roster. His long career at the Met included the Met premieres of "Les mamelles de Tirésias
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Charles Denner


Denner became a student of Charles Dullin, a famous theatre teacher of his time, under whose guidance he remained until 1945. Another great personality of French theatre, Jean Vilar, impressed by Denner's performance at "Les mamelles de Tirésias" ("The Breasts of Tiresias") called him four years after he left Vilar to join the Théâtre National Populaire (TNP). It was there that he gave some of his earliest stage performances in plays such as Heinrich von Kleist's "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg" and Alfred
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Deux Mamelles National Park


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Les Mamelles Lighthouse


Les Mamelles Lighthouse () is a strategically important lighthouse situated near Cap Vert, the westernmost point of Africa, on the outskirts of Dakar the capital of Senegal. Completed in 1864, it has been described as "one of the world's great lighthouses, guiding ships around the western tip of Africa". It is located on the higher of the Deux Mamelles, a pair of prominent hills in Ouakam, a suburban commune of Dakar, 4 km southeast of Almadies and 9 km northwest of Dakar on the Cap-Vert
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Le petit bitu


Le Bitu is a book which compiles a register of numerous commercium songs. As an important part of student folklore, it is considered a must-have for students who want to be involved in societies in the French-speaking part of Belgium. Le Bitu was revived as the "Petit Bitu" in the 80's by Pierre-Noël "Pernod" Boonen and Michel "Mamelle" Henry de Generet, who allegedly spent nights printing the first versions on stencils. Nowadays, a society of Université catholique de Louvain, the
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Opéra-Comique


or the first performance in Paris (86). In June 1936 a broadcast of "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" was disrupted by the start of a company sit-in demanding the director's resignation. In 1939 financial problems resulted in the Opéra-Comique being merged with the Opéra to become the 'Réunion des Théatres Lyriques Nationaux'. Notable premieres during this period included Poulenc's "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" (1947) and "La Voix humaine" (1959). However, by the end of the Second World
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Deux Mamelles


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. These hills are of volcanic origin and they are the vestiges of a plateau from the early Quaternary. The highest hill is only 105 m high, but they stand out in the landscape owing to the flat surroundings. The name of these breast-shaped hills comes from the French term “Mamelle”, a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts
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Pointe des Almadies


Pointe des Almadies is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa. Pointe des Almadies is located on the north-western end of the Cap Vert peninsula in Senegal. Pointe des Almadies lies within the greater Dakar urban area near Îles de la Madeleine National Park and past the Les Mamelles hills from the village of N'gor and the town of Yoff. Pointe des Almadies is a 30 minutes trip from downtown Dakar, Senegal's capital city, and is served by local transportation. The site itself is approximately from the Dakar-Yoff
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Martin McEvoy


in "The Church Parables " by Benjamin Britten at Snape Maltings. His first operatic roles were with "The English Music Theatre Company" under the direction of Colin Graham. His roles included Papageno in "The Magic Flute", Lysander in "The Fairy Queen", the Narrator in the first British performance of "Paul Bunyan" by Benjamin Britten and Filch in "The Threepenny Opera". For Opera North in Leeds, he sang the role of the Gendarme]] in "Les mamelles de Tiresias" by Poulenc
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La Mamelle, Inc./Art Com


University Libraries received primary La Mamelle, Inc./Art Com archives and papers. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive received the artist video archive of hundreds of videotapes. Includes works distributed by Art Com TV Distribution. La Mamelle, Inc./Art Com emerged in the 1970s during the proliferation of artist-run spaces across the country. In the San Francisco Bay Area this included Intersection for the Arts, Museum of Conceptual Art (active 1970-1984), Galeria de la Raza, SF Camerawork, Crossroads Community (the farm) (active
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John McGlinn


" telecast. He returned to the recording studio to make two albums of excerpts from Wagner operas for Naxos Records. At the New York City Opera he conducted revivals of "Brigadoon" and "H.M.S. Pinafore" and, in 1993, at Juilliard School of Music, he conducted the Poulenc one-act operas "La Voix Humaine" and "Les Mamelles de Tiresias". Another project, begun in early 2001, was to record and edit for The Packard Humanities Institute scholarly editions of Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern musicals,
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Aldeburgh Music


recent productions have included Death in Venice and Albert Herring, and Poulenc’s "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" in Britten’s arrangement. On Easter 2012, the programme presented Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas under the direction of Christian Curnyn. Each year there is a digital media course, called New Music/New Media. In September 2012, the course was led by Rolf Wallin, Tansy Davies, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius, co-founder of the Oslo Laptop Orchestra. String quartets come together each spring and present a weekly recital
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Index of Seychelles-related articles


Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Seychelles include: .sc (Internet country code top-level domain) Kenya–Seychelles relations • Koste Seselwa • Koste Seselwa La Digue • La Digue and Inner Islands • Ladob • Lady Denison-Pender Shoal • La Flèche (P32) • La Passe FC • La Riviere Anglaise • Ladob • Languages of Seychelles • Legends of the coco de mer • Les Mamelles • Light Stars FC • Ligne Aérienne Seychelles • List of airlines of Seychelles • List of airports in Seychelles • List of amphibians
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Politics of Seychelles


Praslin), Inner Islands, Les mamelles, Mont Buxton, Mont Fleuri, Plaisance, Pointe Larue, Port Glaud, Roche Caiman, Saint Louis, Takamaka Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, ACP, AfDB, African Union C, ECA, FAO, Group of 77, IBRD, ICAO, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, IFAD, International Finance Corporation, IFRCS, International Labour Organization, International Monetary Fund, International Maritime Organization, InOC, Intelsat (nonsignatory user), Interpol, IOC, International Organization for
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Britten–Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies


Pears Young Artist Programme, continues to provide training for outstanding young professionals from around the world and also manages courses for the Britten-Pears Orchestra, formerly The Snape Maltings Training Orchestra. Singers are auditioned for song recital courses, and recent courses have included American and French song with Dawn Upshaw. Singers and orchestra come together to perform opera; recent productions have included Death in Venice and Albert Herring, and in the autumn of 2012 soloists from the programme sang Poulenc's "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" in Britten's arrangement.
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Victoire Jean-Baptiste


Victoire Jean-Baptiste (1861–1923), known as "La Belle Victoire", was a Haitian de facto politician, mistress to President Florvil Hyppolite and highly influential during his term of office. She had previously been the mistress of Hyppolite's successor, Tirésias Simon Sam, and was granted immunity by him after the death of Florvil Hyppolite. Victoire Jean-Baptiste was a poor illiterate from the countryside outside Cap-Haïtien. In 1886, she was temporarily the mistress of Tirésias Simon Sam. After this, she was a
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Mamele


Yiddle with His Fiddle. Green, by then an American citizen, was in Europe preparing for filming of "A Letter to Mother," when Picon's husband (and manager) proposed that the two should make another film. Picon suggested to adapt the play of "Mamele" which she had performed years before onstage and although Green was reluctant to make a film based on a play, he eventually agreed. Green convinced the cast and crew of "A Letter to Mother" to hold off production for some time and
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Mamelles Island


Mamelles is an island in Seychelles, lying 14 km northeast of Mahe. It is uninhabited and has an area of 6 hectares. Mamelles Island is a granite island with a length of 300 m, a width of 210 meters, covered with little vegetation. The fauna of the island is represented only by wild rabbits and sea birds, including terns, which nest on the island. The name of the island comes from the French word «mamelles», which means "breast". This strange island was called because of
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China–Seychelles relations


Diplomatic relations between China and Seychelles were established on June 30, 1976. China began providing Seychelles with diplomatic aide in 1977, including things such as constructing a poly-technical school and developing housing project in Les Mamelles. In 2002, China exported US$1.48 million worth of goods, while importing only $100,000 from Seychelles. The current Chinese ambassador to Seychelles is Wang Weiguo, who heads the embassy in Saint Louis, on the island of Mahe. The current ambassador to China from Seychelles is Philippe Le Gall. In 2011
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Tirésias Simon Sam


Paul Tirésias Augustin Simon Sam (May 15, 1835 – May 11, 1916) was the President of Haiti from 31 March 1896 to 12 May 1902. He resigned the presidency just before completing his six-year term. Born in the year 1835, Tirésias Simon Sam was a well-received politician and he rose to become the country's president in the year 1896. Sam resigned before completion of his presidential term. His political popularity has seen several postage stamps in Haiti bear his likeness. There were reports that Victoire
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Elie Grekoff


profound harmony with that of Dostoevsky. In 1949 he illustrated "Poèmes. Les Stupra. Album dit Zutique (extraits)" by Arthur Rimbaud, providing 17 homoerotic engravings for a luxury edition of just thirty copies, a few of which were hand coloured. In 1954 he illustrated "Tirésias" by Marcel Jouhandeau, for an edition of 120, providing 20 wood engravings, 15 of which were published in the book, and 5 in a separate slipcase as "refusées" prints. Sold "under the counter", and
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List of Jeeves characters


the weather and Seppings's lumbago. On one occasion, Bertie calls him "Pop Seppings" in a familiar manner. He is employed alongside the supreme chef Anatole. Like many others, Seppings highly esteems Anatole's cooking. In "Right Ho, Jeeves", Bertie describes Seppings when recalling Tuppy pushing away Anatole's cooking at dinner, stating that "Seppings, Aunt Dahlia's butler, a cold, unemotional man, had gasped and practically reeled when Tuppy waved aside those "nonnettes de poulet Agnès Sorel"".
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Mamele


Mamele ( ) is a Yiddish Language Polish musical film made in 1938. Set in Łódź, the film revolves around Khavtshi Samet (Picon), a Cinderella figure, who has taken on maternal responsibility for her family after the death of her mother — hence the title, "Mamele", or 'little mother.' Khavtshi is required to shop, cook and clean up after her unappreciative family. Furthermore, she must keep her siblings out of trouble: her younger brother gets mixed up with crooks and her sister Berta
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Mumbles


anthropomorphic islands which comprise the headland: the word "Mumbles" may be a corruption of the French "les mamelles," meaning "the breasts." Another possible source of the name is from the word Mamucium which is generally thought to represent a Latinisation of an original Brythonic name, either from mamm- ("breast," in reference to a "breast-like hill") or from mamma ("mother," in reference to a local river goddess). The Mumbles Lighthouse was built during the 1790s,
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Charles-Paul Diday


Charles-Paul Diday (1812 – January 8, 1894) was a French physician born in Bourg-en-Bresse. He studied medicine in Paris, and later became chief surgeon at the Antiquaille in Lyon. He was founder of the "Gazette médicale de Lyon", and for 34 years was general secretary of the "Société de Médecine" in Lyon. He specialized in research of venereal disease, particularly congenital syphilis. His "Traite de la syphilis des nouveau-nes et des enfants a la mamelle" (
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Les Mamelles Lighthouse


alternating current at 220 volts. The light produces a white flash every five seconds at a focal height of . With a nominal range of , it is one of the most powerful in Africa. Initially fuelled with oil, the light is now electrified, but remains manned as it is not automated. The lighthouse is open to the public, with guided tours offered by the lighthouse keepers. Views from the lantern gallery provide panoramic views of the entire peninsula, including Almadies, N'Gor, Ouakam, and the African Renaissance Monument which
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Autonomous Port of Dakar


companies. Nearby over 10 km west of the port is Les Mamelles Lighthouse (also the Ouakam Lighthouse) in which the port maintains together with its beacons. Led by Captain Protet, French troops took possession of the Senegalese coast in 1857. Work began on the port in 1862 and it was inaugurated in 1866. In the late 1880s up to the Great Depression in the early 1930s (thought did not fully affected inland in Senegal), its ship traffic volume was high, it was used as a refueling station for ships
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Les Mamelles Lighthouse


peninsula. The completely white lighthouse consists of a ) cylindrical tower attached to the seaward side of a two-storey building. The ground floor contains the machine room housing a generator and battery backup set. On the second floor is the watch room, which is used by the duty keepers during the night. A spiral staircase climbs up to the lantern room, containing the Barbier, Benard, et Turenne 2nd order Fresnel lens that floats in a bath of mercury. It is illuminated by a 1000 watt halogen lamp operating on
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2019 Taça 12 de Novembro


-1 Cacusan [Jul 24] Aitana 2-1 Ponta Leste [Jul 31] Lica-Lica 2-1 Lero [Aug 7] Santa Cruz - Benfica Laulara [Aug 14] DIT - Académica [Aug 21] Boavista Timor - Kablaki [Aug 28] Ultramar - Lalenok [Sep 4] Assalam - Aitana [Sep 11] Lica-Lica - winners Aug 7 [Sep 28] winners Aug 14 - winners Aug 21 [Oct 2] winners Aug 28 - winners Sep 4 [Oct 3] winners
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Signal Transfer Point


A Signal Transfer Point (STP) is a router that relays SS7 messages between "signaling end-points" (SEPs) and other signaling transfer points (STPs). Typical SEPs include "service switching points" (SSPs) and "service control points" (SCPs). The STP is connected to adjacent SEPs and STPs via signaling links. Based on the address fields of the SS7 messages, the STP routes the messages to the appropriate outgoing signaling link. Edge STPs can also route based upon message body content using
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Les Ailes de la Mode


Les Ailes de la Mode Inc. was a Quebec clothing retail store chain. Its flagship store was in downtown Montreal and was the anchor tenant of the Complexe Les Ailes. Les Ailes de la Mode also subleased a section of their department stores to Bowring. Les Ailes de la Mode was last based in North York, Ontario alongside parent company Fairweather I.N.C Group. Prior to 2005, it was based in Boucherville, Quebec as part of the San Francisco Group. Les Ailes de la Mode was founded in 1993 by Jean Delage Roberge
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Agriculture in Senegal


Regional Association of Women Cattle Breeders, Dirtel. Other major players in the milk market include Nestlé-Senegal, SATREC, CCMB, Saprolait, and Les Mamelles Jaboot. The poultry industry has been increasing its overall production since the announcement in 2005 of the ban of imports of chicken meat and despite the shock created in early 2006 by avian influenza. The sector represents 17% of the animal industry's contribution to GDP and employs about 10,000 people. In 2003, there were 3.2 millions chicken producing 5,982 tons of meat. Because
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Universidad Azteca


in Austria, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, India. Universidad Azteca is affiliated with the "Centro de Estudios Superiores Azteca". The private university was established in 1984 and recognized by the federal Secretary of Public Education (SEP) of the United States of Mexico in 1987. The university is accredited by the "Reconocimiento de Validez Oficial de Estudios" (RVOE) and the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) to award graduate and postgraduate degrees. It is listed with the official Mexican government cultural and scientific information exchange network
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Lordship of Meath


a son, also called Theobald (b. 8 Sep 1278, d. 27 Jul 1316). The 2nd Lord de Verdun had no male heirs. In 1317, the de Lacy heirs, based in Rathwire were defeated and exiled by Roger Mortimer, who was their relation by marriage. This resulted in the re-unification in the Lordship. When Maud married for the second time, the lordships of Trim and Ludlow passed to her husband, Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville by right of his marriage to her. King
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Districts of Seychelles


Louis and Mont Fleuri. Between 1991 and 1993, the originally 23 districts were local government units with elected councils. Since then, they have been governed by government-appointed administrators. In 1998, two new districts, Roche Caiman and Les Mamelles were created mostly from reclaimed land and from parts of Plaisance. In 2012, another new land reclamation took place, and Eve Island and Rev Island were created near the capital Victoria and Bay St. Anne in Praslin, making the area 459 km. Also, the Outer Islands were
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Alfonso de Santa Cruz


Alfonso de Santa Cruz (1632 - 25 Sep 1698) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (1683–1698). Alfonso de Santa Cruz was born in 1632. On 15 Feb 1683, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo and Titular Bishop of "Methone". He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo until his death on 25 Sep 1698. While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Anselmo Gómez de la Torre, Bishop of Tui (1690)
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United States hydrogen policy


programs. Each states energy office gets SEP funding and manages all SEP funded projects. For more information about the SEP, including project descriptions, visit the SEP website. Clean Ports USA is an incentive-based program designed to help reduce emissions by encouraging port authorities to redesign and replace older diesel engines with new technologies and cleaner fuels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Clean Diesel Campaign offers funding to port authorities to help them overcome the obstacles that prevent the adoption of cleaner diesel technologies. Clean Construction USA promotes the reduction
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Charles-Michel Billard


published his best work, a book on newborn illnesses, titled ""Traité des maladies des enfants nouveau nés et à la mamelle"". In 1832 Charles-Prosper Ollivier d'Angers published a second edition of the work, and in 1837, a third French edition was issued. It was also translated into German by Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (1829), and in 1839 the third French edition was translated into English and published with the title of "A treatise on the diseases of infants". His other noted written efforts
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Henri Lambert


1918. H.L., « Une Fédération Russe » (cf. PE, p. 279-281), lettre mai 1918 parue in New YorkEvening Post. H.L., « Les fondements de l’Ordre international » (cf. PE, p. 281-284), lettre septembre 1918 aux éditeurs de « The World Tomorrow ». H.L., « Les bases de la Société des Nations » (cf. PE., p. 179-185) in Journal des Économistes « Les bases de la Ligue des Nations (1919) » est
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Victoire Jean-Baptiste


offices and was regularly given large sums from the state to her private projects, such as a sugar plantation. In 1894, her support made Tirésias Simon Sam minister of war. At the death of Florvil Hyppolite in 1896, she sought refuge at the French embassy. The successor of Hippolyte, however, was Tirésias Simon Sam, who had promised Hyppolite to treat her well because of her service to the state. She settled in Cap-Haïtien with Edward Jerome from Martinique and lived on her fortune. She was given a
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José Chávez Morado


He established his art career in the 1930s, starting by teaching drawing classes in primary and secondary schools in 1933. He was named chief of the Fine Arts Section of the Department of Fine Arts of the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) in 1935, and later gave classes in drawing at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura of the SEP in the 1940s. He also was a professor of lithography at the Escuela de Artes del Libro. His students included Felipe Ehrenberg, Luis Nishizawa and Greta Dale . He also did illustration
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


down the station, and on January 15, 1985, Radio Universidad Pueblo went off the air. In the meantime, university students went as far as organizing a hunger strike in Mexico City in order to protest the SEP's demand to close the station. The SEP, however, failed to keep some of its promises to the university. A new rector, Ramón Reyes Carreto, decided that if the SEP would not keep its promises, the university did not have a reason to stay off the air. In June 1987
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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Detached eddy simulation


was initially formulated for the Spalart-Allmaras model, it can be implemented with other RANS models (Strelets, 2001), by appropriately modifying the length scale which is explicitly or implicitly involved in the RANS model. So while Spalart-Allmaras model based DES acts as LES with a wall model, DES based on other models (like two equation models) behave as a hybrid RANS-LES model. Grid generation is more complicated than for a simple RANS or LES case due to the RANS-LES switch. DES is
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Le maître de chapelle


Le maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu ("The Chapelmaster, or The Unexpected Supper") is an opéra comique in two acts by the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer. The French libretto, by Sophie Gay, is based on "Le souper imprévu, ou Le chanoine de Milan" by Alexandre Duval (1796). "Le maître de chapelle" was premiered by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris on 29 March 1821 with the famous baritone Jean-Blaise Martin as Barnabé. By 1900 the
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Joseph Green (actor)


1937), "Mamele" (Little Mother; 1938), and "A brivele der mamen" (A Little Letter to Mother; 1939). He also wrote the screenplays for the films, except for "Mamele". Born in Łódź (Poland), then in Congress Poland, part of the Russian Empire, he attended a traditional Jewish cheder, or elementary school, and then a state gymnasium (high school). In 1915, during the First World War, he trained at the drama school of
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Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu


include reading, mathematics, history and social sciences, natural sciences, and English language. In the 2015 school year, the had an enrollment of 534 students from preschool ("pre-kínder") to twelfth grade (') with an average of 38 per grade. The school serves students aged between 4 and 19 years old. In 2012, 159 students were classified as "prioritary" under the SEP law (', "Preferential Scholar Subsidy Law" in English); "prioritary students" under the SEP
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