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Ravel - L'Enfant et les Sortilèges / Netherlands Dance Theater (Jiri Kylian) |
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Colette, the author of Gigi, penned the story of L'enfant et les sortiléges, which is related here in an introduction by the choreographer Jiri Kylian with charm and a nod back at his own childhood pranks. Viewers coming to this Netherlands Dance Theatre version of the opera for the first time may be surprised that Ravel composed the boy's role for a girl, and a rather buxom one in this instance. The somewhat gloomy, heavily embroidered production misses no opportunity in bringing to life the toys in the boy's room or the animals in the garden that turn on him in retribution. In conclusion, as an act of compassion of binding the paw of an injured squirrel, the boy and the animal kingdom are reconciled in music of a truly sublime nature. Lorin Maazel conducts Ravel's sophisticated and witty score of translucent vocal lines with the affection for which he has long been renowned. --Adrian Edwards
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