L'heure Espagnole/L'enfant Et Les Sortilèges: Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Kazushi Ono) (2011)
1h 43min
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Ravel's two one-act operas reunited in 2012 director Laurent Pelly and conductor Kazushi Ono, who made their Glyndebourne debuts in 2008 with Humperdinck s 'Hänsel und Gretel'. While 'l Enfant et les Sortilèges' shares with that opera a child s-eye view of a sometimes threatening world, 'l Heure Espagnole' is a thoroughly adult confection. Pelly addresses Ravel s very different operas with imagination, wit and when required humanity. These productions were streamed live on the Guardian's website and given in concert performance at the Proms 2012 to rapturous acclaim. 'Glyndebourne's new double bill of L'heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges matches the composer's ethereal precision with near flawless performances and dazzling stagings, conducted by Kazushi Ono...beautifully rendered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in full erotic flight. Ensemble cast and chorus excelled... A friend of Ravel's once described this small, dapper man, whose favourite possession was a mechanical nightingale in a gilded cage, as both a child and an old man. He would surely have been overjoyed by this near perfect double bill.' Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian, 12/8/2012 'Pelly and his team have worked a miracle here everything works and everything fits. The dusky, misty lighting is superb in creating something off-the-wall, and not just the wallpaper, allowing all the tormented characters to wreak revenge on the Child in a hallucination and nowhere more so than in the garden where animals and forestry are simply captivating. Surreal, yes, but the boy has created his own nightmare. There isn t a weak link in the cast most of the singers from L Heure espagnole returning to multi-task; and there is some great choreography and costumes, too. The music s jazziness, pastiche, suggestion and compassion are treated as one by Ono and handsomely delivered by a meticulous LPO. The ovation that the first-night audience afforded this very special staging was fully justified it s been a while since I have seen trees bowing in strict formation! This Ravel pairing is one of Glyndebourne s finest two hours, L Enfant et les sortilèges being exceptional in every dreamlike and frightening particular. Colin Anderson, Classical Source. - Directors:
- Laurent Pelly
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- Fraprod
- Genres:
- Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
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- 103 minutes
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