Opera Today (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Greed, lust and folly … Richard Jones’ comic double bill, first seen in 2007 and faithfully revived here by Elaine Kidd, certainly sharpens the spotlight on those eternal human foibles.
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Ruxandra Donose sings Concepción in Ravel's L'heure Espagnoie in a double bill with Gianni Schicchi at the Royal Opera House. Concepción is an unusual personality, so Miss Donose's characterization is interesting.
Paul in London (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
In a week packed full of culture and goings on, Tuesday night's trip to the opera to see Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi was a real treat. Well when giant cleavage greets you when you enter the theatre (it was on the curtain, not in the audience), you know it is going to be a bit of a fun evening. Both performances and productions were excellent. Director Richard Jones (who...
This is London (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Nobody could accuse Ravel of resorting to slapstick in his one-act opera L'Heure Espagnole.
The Stage (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Royal Opera House, London: Richard Jones' double bill of one-act comedies hits the spot in every conceivable way. Ravel's suggestive farce Spanish Time shows clockmaker's wife Concepcion dallying with her various lovers while her husband is out, with a hunky muleteer unwittingly moving them around the house in clock cases. Puccini's mordant comedy presents wily peasant Gianni Schicchi helping a wealthy...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
When Richard Jones’ double-bill of Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi premiered in 2007 it was celebrated for its tragi-comic assessment of the themes of lust and greed. In this, its first revival at Coven...
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