Tiebreak Tossup  The first act of this opera features the arias "Elle sort un bobard" and "Ah chere liberte," which involves a pair of drunken gamblers, one of whom is fat and the other thin, named Lacouf and Presto – they come out of a café bickering and fight a duel to the death, after which they're mourned by the townspeople. One character suggests that a fortune teller's tarot cards be used to ration food for the people. The action takes place in Zanzibar, which is not in Africa but rather somewhere on the Riviera, and the plot sees forty thousand babies produced in one day by a husband, after his wife ties him up and undergoes a transformation in which the title objects go floating off as balloons. Based on a p
Tiebreak Tossup  The first act of this opera features the arias "Elle sort un bobard" and "Ah chere liberte," which involves a pair of drunken gamblers, one of whom is fat and the other thin, named Lacouf and Presto – they come out of a café bickering and fight a duel to the death, after which they're mourned by the townspeople. One character suggests that a fortune teller's tarot cards be used to ration food for the people. The action takes place in Zanzibar, which is not in Africa but rather somewhere on the Riviera, and the plot sees forty thousand babies produced in one day by a husband, after his wife ties him up and undergoes a transformation in which the title objects go floating off as balloons. Based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire, FTP, name this surreal opera bouffe by Francis Poulenc which involves some body parts on a woman named for a mythological seer.
Tiebreak Tossup  The first act of this opera features the arias "Elle sort un bobard" and
The {Breasts of Tiresias} (Les Mamelles de Tiresias)