Coming from the French part of the Basque Country, Maurice Ravel had a passion for Spanish folk music throughout his life. In addition to the “Bolero” and the “Rhapsodie espagnole”, his short opera L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE, which premiered in 1911, is the best-known example of Ravel’s sophisticated stylization of Spanish dance rhythms.

And like “Bolero”, the almost hour-long stage work about the sexually underutilized watchmaker’s wife Concepciòn is a masterpiece of Ravel’s typical laconic elegance.

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa can be heard in the role of Concepción, with the young French conductor Maxime Pascal at the podium, who combines the one-act play with Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite “Scheherazade”.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov [1844 – 1908]

Scheherazade, Symphonic Poem, Opus 35

Intermission

Maurice Ravel [1875-1937]

L’heure espagnole

Musical comedy in one act with a libretto by Franc-Nohain

Premiere on May 19, 1911 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris

approx. 2 hours / one break

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Participating artists

Maxime Pascal (Dirigent)

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

Marianne Crebassa (Concepción)

N. N. (Torquemada)

N. N. (Ramiro)

N. N. (Gonzalvo)

N. N. (Don Inigo Gomez)

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