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Ravel:Ravel ''Laps ja lummutised''. ''Hane-ema''

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“Ravel:Ravel” is a poetic game, full of fantasy, where you can cheat for beauty and where Ravel’s affair with music ends up in a crazy whirlwind of spectacle, dreamt of by children and yearned for by grown-ups.

Within one evening two pieces by Ravel will be performed: lyric opera fantasy “The Child and the Spells” and a dance production “Mother Goose” (with one intermission). The performances are sung in Estonian or French, subtitles in Estonian and English.

Premiere at the Estonian National Opera on June 18, 2021

The performances are sung in Estonian or French, subtitles in Estonian and English.
Approx. running time 1 h 45 min, one intermission 
 
Within one evening two pieces by Ravel will be performed: lyric opera fantasy “The Child and the Spells” and a dance production “Mother Goose”. The performances are sung in Estonian or French, subtitles in Estonian and English.
 
Recommended for all ages, starting age 5.
 
“The Child and the Spells”
Fantaisie lyrique in one act by Maurice Ravel
Libretto by Colette
World premiere on March 21, 1925 in Monte Carlo
 
Music Director: Arvo Volmer
Conductors: Vello Pähn, Kaspar Mänd
Stage Director: Mart Kampus
Set and Costume Designer, Stage Director: Liina Keevallik
Lighting Designer: Siim Reispass
 
Life is surreal, both on stage and in reality. Who hasn’t quarrelled with an armchair? Or with a stubborn grandfather clock? We have all loved princesses and torn them apart just to see what is inside. Did the porcelain cup just break out of its own will? How very frustrating!
Besides, what is inside the wallpaper that so invitingly peels off the wall?
Speaking squirrels, sleeping beauties, frogs as chorus singers, scary numbers, tiptoeing curtains, teacups as tourists and screaming flames – what an amazing blend of dreamy revelations and pieces of real life, opera and ballet as well as stage lights and behind the stage sounds.
What about the Mother Goose? Will she manage to squeeze herself on stage or into your dream?
 
“Mother Goose”
World premiere on January 29, 1912 in Théâtre des Arts, Paris
Premiere in the Estonian National Opera on June 18, 2021
 
Music Director: Arvo Volmer
Conductors: Vello Pähn, Kaspar Mänd
Stage Director, Choreographer and Designer: Renate Keerd
Lighting Designer: Siim Reispass
 

“Mother Goose” is a free interpretation of Maurice Ravel’s ballet by a free-lance stage director and choreographer Renate Keerd. According to a French custom, a mother goose is a nickname for a nurse, who tells children fairy-tales. Keerd takes the classical libretto and turns it upside down. Her original story is based on Ravel’s orchestrated version of the piece. In her staging, Keerd concentrates on paradoxes of our lives, mixing it with her fantastic, absurd and witty style.

“Ravel:Ravel” is a game where you can cheat for beauty and where Ravel’s love affair with music ends up in a crazy whirlwind of spectacle, dreamt of by children and yearned for by grown-ups.

 

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