Louis Langrée, Guillaume Gallienne and Clairemarie Osta combine performing arts to honour these two masterpieces, inspired by the gallant XVIIIth century, in a show that celebrates comic spirit’s fruitfulness and freedom in genre.
Once again, all the girls are in love with Polichinelle: he must therefore get rid of the jealous ones, while saving his own romance. It’s the opposite for Concepción, the wife of the clockmaker of Toledo, who is afflicted with lovers as disappointing as her husband’s.
Ravel, whom Stravinsky nicknamed “the Swiss clockmaker,” created his first lyrical work at the Opéra-Comique, a musical comedy exalting the words and mechanics of the theater, just before embarking on his collaboration with the Ballets Russes. It was for them that after the war, Stravinsky agreed to dip his inspiration into the comic theater of Pergolesi: his ballet Pulcinella, created at the Opéra, inaugurated the neoclassical period of his production.
Pulcinella | Ballet with songs in one act music based on Pergolèse. Created at the Opéra de Paris on 15th may 1920.
L’Heure espagnole | Musical Comedy in one act libretto by Franc-Nohain. Created at the Opéra-Comique on 19th may 1911
Musical direction, Louis Langrée • Stage direction, Guillaume Gallienne • Choreography, Clairemarie Osta • Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Pulcinella | Dancers, Oscar Salomonsson, Alice Renavand, Iván Delgado, Manon Dubourdeaux, Anna Guillermin, Stoyan Zmarzlik • Soloists, Camille Chopin, Abel Zamora and François Lis
L’Heure espagnole | With Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Philippe Talbot, Benoît Rameau, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Nicolas Cavallier
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