• Directed by S. Janski • Written by Colette Music by M.Ravel • Royal Northern College of Music Set in an old-fashioned Normandy country home, the opera tells the story of a rude child who is reprimanded by the objects in his room which has been destroying. In the second part, the bedroom becomes a garden filled with singing animals and plants which has been torture by the child as well. A squirrel is hurt, the child bandages the squirrel and the animals have a change of hart, they carry him back home as they praise him and call for his mother.
L’Enfant et les sortileges
beginning
chairs: Le fauteuil & La bergere
clock
Wedgwood teapot and cup
Cats on mantelpiece
fire appears
Fire
Wallpaper
princess comes out of the book
clock
wallpaper
princess disappears
Arithmatic or Le petit vieillard
Forest comes in as the fire burns
forest
fire
animals about to appear...
Dragonfly and nightingale
frog and squirrel
Squirrel
observe as child repents
bat
waltz
finale