Name: L'Heure espagnole
Start: 2018-01-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-02-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Soprano

Paula Murrihy

Concepción

Tenor

Frédéric Antoun

Gonzalve

Spencer Lang

Torquemada

Baritone

Andrei Bondarenko

Ramiro

Bass

Michael Hauenstein

Don Iñigo Gomez

Dirigent

Pavel Baleff

Regisseur

Jan Eßinger

Set designer

Sonja Füsti

Kostuum ontwerper

Jeannette Seiler

Licht ontwerper

Hans-Rudolf Kunz

Koor meester

Ernst Raffelsberger

Dramaturg

Kathrin Brunner

Mezzo-soprano

Deniz Uzun

L'Enfant

contralto

Maman

Hamida Kristoffersen

La bergère Louis XV

La Chouette

La Chauve-souris

Une pastourelle

Sen Guo

Le Feu

La Princesse

Le Rossignol

Irène Friedli

La Tasse Chinoise

La Libellule

Gemma Ní Bhriain

La Chatte

Un pâtre

Dmytro Kalmuchyn

L'Horloge Comtoise

Le Chat

François Piolino

Le Petit Vieillard

La Rainette

La Théière

Ildo Song

Le Fauteuil

L'Arbre

Opernhaus Zürich

Orchestra

Musikkollegium Winterthur

Others

SoprAlti der Oper Zurich

Zusatzchor der Oper Zürich

Frans

L'Heure espagnole

Zürich

Zwitserland

Opernhaus

L'Heure espagnole Ravel (+1 More)

Public

Het kind en de toverspreuken

Approved

Regisseur Jan Eßinger spricht in diesem Video über seine Inszenierung des Ravel-Doppelabends «L'Heure espagnole / L'Enfant et les sortilèges» am Opernhaus Zürich.
Wir zeigen die zwei Kurzopern von Maurice Ravel, die ihre Premiere im vergangenen Jahr in Winterthur hatten, in einer neuen, attraktiven Besetzung in Zürich: unter anderem mit der irischen Mezzosopranistin Paula Murrihy als Conception, dem kanadischen Tenor Frédéric Antoun als Gonzalve und unserem Ensemblemitglied Deniz Uzun als Enfant. Vorstellungen am 19, 21, 26, 28 Jan; 1 Feb 2018:
https://www.opernhaus.ch/ravel

L'Heure espagnole / L'Enfant et les sortilèges
We are showing the double evening with two short operas by Maurice Ravel, which had its premiere last year in Winterthur, in a new, attractive line-up in Zurich: among others, with the Irish mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy as Conception, the Canadian tenor Frédéric Antoun as Gonzalve and our Ensemble member Deniz Uzun as enfant.

Maurice Ravel's penchant for music boxes, jukeboxes and unusual clocks is well known - and it was also reflected in his first one-act opera, the Comédie musicale L'Heure espagnole . Ravel's musical wealth of ideas is stunning, for example when he makes audible a whole mechanical arsenal from a watchmaker's shop in the overture. But this shop becomes a completely different playground: Here, after her husband is out, the extravagant conception receives one lover after the other. The salacious ambiguity of score and plot appalled the music critics of the time, who spoke contemptuously of "musical pornography". The opera quickly disappeared from the repertoire, but today it is undoubtedly one of the most attractive short operas.

Ravel's second opera, L'Enfant et les sortilèges based on a libretto by the poet Colette, was a success from the start. Here, too, Ravel writes a colorful and extremely original score. The story is about a child who is punished for not doing his homework. Out of anger, it begins to destroy things that later nightmarishly turn against the child. Gradually, however, they learn what empathy means and begin to take responsibility for their actions.

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