Tag: L’heure espagnole

• L’affaire Ravel

  March 10, 2012

  Opera, Uncategorized, Vocal

  L’enfant et les sortilèges, L’heure espagnole, Maurice Ravel

  For five consecutive years (1900–1905) Ravel tried and failed to win the prestigious Prix de Rome. In 1905 the matter became a matter of public scandal and led to the resignation of the, then, principal of the Conservatoire, Théodore Dubois, and his replacement by Gabriel Fauré. Ravel’s operatic output consists of two one-act works: L’heure espagnole (Spanish…