HEURE ESPAGNOLE

L’ (Spanish Time) Composer: MAURICE RAVEL Book by Franc Nohain First performance: Opéra comique, Paris, May 19, r91t I act. In Totepo during the eighteenth century lived Concepcion, beautiful but She has come upon the happy inconstant wife of Torque mad a, clock-maker. method of hiding her lovers by putting them in grandfather’s-clock cases. Ramiro, a giant henchman, lugs these from room to room, and up and down However, she becomes so stairs to suit Concepcion’s taste and requirements. interested in the engaging muscles of the mighty Ramiro that she invites him to her rooms, and forgets about the poet in one clock case and the banker in another. Torque mad a returns and humanely releases them, also selling each a clock! Finally, with Concepcion and Ramiro, they all sing an engaging quintet.