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Opera Operas in concert: L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Spells). Der Zwerg (The Dwarf)
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Schedule for Operas in concert: L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Spells). Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) 2022

Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky

Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra

L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts) is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette. It is the second Ravel opera, the first being L'heure espagnole. Written from 1917 to 1925, the opera was first performed in Monte Carlo in 1925 under the baton of Victor de Sabata.

After being offered the opportunity to write a musical work, Colette wrote the text in eight days. Several composers were proposed to Colette to write the music, but she only was enthused with the prospect of Ravel.



Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) is an opera in one act by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky. Its libretto was written by George Klaren, based loosely on the story The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde. Zemlinsky completed the short score in December 1919 and the orchestration in January 1921. The opera's premiere took place on May 28, 1922 at the Stadttheater in Cologne, Germany under the baton of Otto Klemperer. Its last performance in Zemlinsky's lifetime was in 1926. Zemlinsky's choice of this drama was a reflection of the end of his relationship with Alma Mahler, and the sympathy he felt with the drama's main character.

The opera has occasionally been produced with the German translation of the Wilde title as Der Geburtstag des Infantin. Der Zwerg is less than 90 minutes long, and is usually paired with another work when it is performed. The first-ever double-billing of Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg and Eine florentinische Tragödie was in 1981 at the Hamburg State Opera.




Synopsis

L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts)  Synopsis

Set in an old-fashioned Normandy country home, the opera tells the story of a rude child who is reprimanded by the objects in his room which he has been destroying. After being scolded by his mother in the beginning of the opera, the child throws a tantrum destroying the room around him. He is then surprised to find that the unhappy objects in his room come to life. The furniture and decorations begin to talk; even his homework takes shape as it becomes an old man and a chorus of numbers.

In the second part, the bedroom becomes a garden filled with singing animals and plants which have been tortured by the child as well. The child attempts to make friends with the animals and plants, but they shun him because of the damage he did to them earlier when they were inanimate. They leave him aside, and in his loneliness, he eventually cries out "Maman". At this, the animals turn on him and attack him, but the animals wind up jostling among each other as the child is tossed aside. At the culmination, a squirrel is hurt, which causes the other animals to stop fighting. The child bandages the squirrel, then collapses exhausted. The animals have a change of heart toward the child, and decide to try to help him home. They carry the child back to his house, and sing in praise of the child. The opera ends with the child singing "Maman", as he greets his mother, in the very last measure of the score.



Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) Synopsis

At the birthday celebration of the Infanta, Donna Clara, she receives a present of a captured dwarf. She plays with him, and he becomes infatuated with the Infanta at these attentions. He thinks of himself as a brave knight. However, he sees his image in a mirror and thus his physical deformity. He tries to obtain a kiss from the Infanta, but she spurns this. His heart breaks, and the dwarf dies.


Schedule for Operas in concert: L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Spells). Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) 2022


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