The Child and the Spells by Ravel, сря 11 май 2022, от (2021/2022), Режисиран от Emilie Capliez,, диригент Didier Puntos, Comédie de Colmar, Colmar, France

I am very mean! »For not having done his homework, a child is deprived of a snack and punished until evening. In rage, he overturns the teapot, smothers the embers in the fireplace, tears his notebooks, tears the curtains, breaks a clock and tortures a squirrel. Drunk with his omnipotence over this devastated world, he seeks rest in an armchair, but it slips away to go dancing. Under the astonished eyes of the child, his inanimate victims come to life: the teapot discusses boxing with the Chinese cup, the fire rumbles and threatens while the princess awakens from her tale. Garden animals - cats, tree frogs, dragonflies, bats and squirrels - torment him in turn, determined to teach him a good lesson and teach him compassion. To each of the spells that came out of Colette's imagination, Maurice Ravel gave a musical color and a singular style. Jazz, waltz, Spanish dance, neo-classical sarabande and lyrical flights follow one another in an opera-kaleidoscope that becomes nomadic thanks to a traveling chamber show, presented in the Grand Est by the singers of the Opera Studio and four instrumentalists.