“
This man has biceps that surpass all my concepts
.”
This is just one of the tasty touches with which the librettist Franc-Nohain has peppered
L'HeureEspagne
, the delicious boulevard piece set to music by Ravel, which returns to the hall where it was created, in 1911: the Opéra Comique.
What to pair it with?
The choice of Louis Langrée, director of the Salle Favart and conductor of the show, fell on
Pulcinella
, this ballet created in 1920, and with which Stravinsky launched the neoclassical movement while being completely himself.
The link is tenuous between the two, if not the omnipresence of desire, that of women for the outsider Polichinelle, that of the bourgeois woman from Toledo Concepcion, who tries to take advantage of the absence of her watchmaker husband to receive his lovers.
The director Guillaume Gallienne, who produces a lovely show, without pretension or vulgarity - without madness either, did not seek to connect the two parts.
If not by the spiral staircase…
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