L'Heure Espagnole / Gianni Schicchi at Opéra Bastille, Paris
The two timeless comic operas are back to tickle the funny bone of Parisians.Spiced with Italian buffa, L'Heure Espagnole transports one to Torquemada's clock shop, the scene of his wife Concepcion's infidelities. This opera is latin in its harmonic sensuality, and the farcical humor of Ravel's opera is a befitting counterpart to the situation imagined by Puccini in "Gianni Schicchi." A bit exhausted of tragic subjec…