Clocking off: from left, Elgan Llŷr Thomas (Gonzalve), Catherine Backhouse (Concepción) and Ross Ramgobin (Ramiro) in 'L'heure espagnole'Grange Park Opera Ticking fills the soundtrack as we dive ...

New Camerata Opera (NCO) announces details for a double bill of French one-act operas - Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène and Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole - from September 16 through September 24, ...

Tout public. « L’heure espagnole », sous-titrée comédie musicale, est le premier des deux opéras de Maurice Ravel. Il en fit la composition en 1907 d’après une pièce de Franc-Nohain.

In L’Heure Espagnole, we watch a sex-starved clockmaker’s wife Concepcion (whose breasts we’ve just seen whizz up into the gods) attempt to tryst, while her husband is out on his rounds. Like 'Allo ...

À l’école de musique et de danse de Clohars-Carnoët (Finistère), lundi 4 août 2025, dans la soirée, chanteurs et pianiste répètent scène par scène l’opéra « L’Heure espagnole », de Maurice Ravel. Ils ...

Au programme du Festival al-Bustan, ce soir, L’heure espagnole de Maurice Ravel, un opéra en un acte, produit et interprété par les étudiants de quatrième année de l’Académie libanaise des beaux-arts ...

Colourfully staged double bill of comic operas on sex and infidelity struggles to raise laughs You’ve got to wonder at the sheer audacity of staging a duo of one-act operas on marital infidelity and ...

Maurice Ravel loved small, fascinating things, notably clock mechanisms and children. Both figure into his operas " " and " " which are also small, fascinating things, but which in season-closing ...

It’s always heartening when a revival not only comes up looking as fresh as a daisy but is even more compelling than when it was new. This is exactly what’s happened to Richard Jones’ already ...

One of Puccini's greatest hits, "O mio babbino caro" is usually the point at which the opera "Gianni Schicchi" grinds to a halt. Ravishing though young Lauretta's love song is, it freezes the drama.