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Getting to the heart of Ravel's opera double bill
Madrid :: Spain | 9 months ago
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Tristram Kenton In both style and substance, Maurice Ravel's two operas are poles apart. The first, L'Heure espagnole (1911) , is a risque little sex comedy about a woman's frustrations as she tries to get in a quickie during the hour a week that her
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Glyndebourne 2012 - L'heure espagnole/l'enfant et les sortileges synopsis, cast and creatives
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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Stephanie D'Oustrac (Concepcion), Alex Shrader (Gonzalve), Francois Piolino (Torquemada), Paul Gay (Don Inigo Gomez) and Elliot Madore (Ramiro). Photograph: Tristram Kenton L'heure espagnole Clocks of various shapes and sizes stand around Torquemada'
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L'heure espagnole/ L'enfant et les sortileges, Glyndebourne, East Sussex Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Riverside Studios, London The Francis Bacon Opera, Camden Arts Centre, London
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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Loosely translated as "Spanish time", L'heure espagnole , suggests a semi-Tantric deferment of erotic abandon. Every nation has preconceptions about other nations' sex lives, particularly when those other nations enjoy a warmer, disinhibiting climate.
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L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortileges; BBC Prom 33 – review
Ono :: Japan | 9 months ago
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Francois Piolino as Teapot and Elodie Mechain as Chinese Cup in L'enfant et les sortileges at Glyndebourne: near flawless'. Photograph: Simon Annand Artifice and technical perfection: chilling terms when applied to almost any work of art outside the
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L'heure espagnole, ****; L'enfant et les sortileges *****, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, East Sussex
Paris :: France | 10 months ago
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Ravel's small, perfectly-formed oeuvre includes just two short operas, but the second, L'enfant et les sortileges', is a masterpiece. Glyndebourne has imported Laurent Pelly's Paris production of L'heure espagnole' and got him to create a new one for
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Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment
Vienna :: Austria | 10 months ago
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Colette as a young girl L'enfant et les sortileges opens the way to other disturbing 'child' operas. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images In the world of opera the librettist often plays second fiddle to the composer. But this is not the case with
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