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The farcical ‘Spanish hour’ – 50 minutes, to be precise, and Ravel’s sense of timing otherwise is – proves only one thing: how potent a cheap plot can be when the music accompanying it is of ...

How much of what happens when you’re a kid happens only inside your head? I remember one time—was I 8 or 9?—playing alone, as I usually did, in our back yard, with my little plastic Romans and horses ...

Maurice Ravel wrote less music than virtually any composer of major stature. But what he allowed the world to hear is wondrous, including two operas of striking originality, "L'heure espagnole" and "L ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The small but enterprising Lyric Opera has produced another success in this double bill of one-act comedies by Ravel and Puccini.

Simon Heffer presents a profile of Maurice Ravel, with Le tombeau de Couperin and La valse, plus excerpts from Ravel's two piano concertos and the opera L'enfant et les sortileges. Show more In the ...

In L’Enfant et les sortilèges (1924), the little boy who won’t do his homework, who smashes the teapot, pulls the cat’s tail and rips the wallpaper, suddenly finds his victims coming to life and ...