Hints and tips:
...In that sense, L’heure espagnole, the first and lewdest of his two one-act operas, is uncharacteristic of him. So Laurent Pelly argues in a programme note to this double bill....
...There have been subtler productions of L’Heure espagnole....
...It was a neat idea to put these two one-act operas – Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi – together as a pair....
...Christine Rice’s Concepcion is not flattered by her starchy Spanish costume (Nicky Gillibrand)....
...This double bill has the added attraction of Bryn Terfel as Puccini’s scheming Schicchi and Christine Rice as Ravel’s seductive Concepción. Antonio Pappano conducts....
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