MetroWest Opera
Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges!
Double bill with Mozart’s Impresario.
Saturday, March 21 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 22 at 2pm
Friday, March 27 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 29 at 2pm
First Parish Unitarian Church, 349 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA MAP
I will be singing the Dragonfly on Sunday, March 22nd and Friday, March 27th; I will be in the chorus for the other two performances.
Ravel’s music for this is awesome and hilarious and touching. A young boy throws a tantrum instead of doing his homework and his mother sentences him to stay in his room with no snack. He proceeds to tear the room apart. Then the furniture, the Wedgewood teapot, the China cup, and the storybook princess grow larger than life and terrorize him with their grandeur and brokenness. His arithmetic lessons come to life and 4 + 4 = 18. The child ends up in the garden where he is mutinied against by the animals he habitually plagues. I will be playing the distraught dragonfly whose mate the boy has crushed with his fingernail. Eventually the boy comes to understand what a holy terror he has been and begs for his maman. The animals decide to spare him.



