Ma Mère l'Oye / L'Enfant et les Sortilèges - Opera - Season 23/24 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

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    Ma Mère l'Oye /​ L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

    Maurice Ravel

    Palais Garnier - from 21 November to 14 December 2023

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Ma Mère l'Oye /​ L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

Palais Garnier - from 21 November to 14 December 2023

Opera

Ma Mère l'Oye /​ L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

Maurice Ravel

Palais Garnier - from 21 November to 14 December 2023

1h45 with 1 interval

Language : French / French

Surtitle : French / English

  • Opening night : 21 Nov. 2023

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A teapot dancing the foxtrot with a Chinese cup, an armchair courting a Louis XV wing chair, objects and animals joining forces against an unruly child: such is the marvellous world that Maurice Ravel brings to life in his “fantaisie lyrique” created in 1925. A finely orchestrated musical gem, in which the composer’s taste for humour, childhood poetry and animals – an affection shared with the writer Colette, who wrote the libretto – is clearly apparent. While the artists of the Academy embody the characters of L’Enfant et les Sortilèges in Richard Jones’ oneiric staging, the students of the Ballet School perform the ballet Ma Mère l’Oye (1912) in Martin Chaix’ inventive choreography. An opera, a ballet: two works by Ravel placed under the sign of childhood and fairy tales, sublimated by the red and golden setting of the Palais Garnier...

  • Opening
  • First part 30 mn
  • Intermission 30 mn
  • Second part 45 mn
  • End

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L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (saison 19/20) - Bouchard-Lesieur, Jovanović, Ireland, Lobel-Torres

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (saison 19/20) - Tobias Westman et Marie - Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (saison 19/20) - Jeanne Ireland

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (saison 19/20)- Jeanne Ireland et Tobias Westman

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