5 May 2025
(!!Nerd Alert!!)
The performances of an absolutely stunning new production by @mosheleiser and #patricecaurier are over, but I still haven’t figured out the point of one phrase in L’heure espagnole and. it. drives. me. crazy:
IÑIGO
Coucou !…
CONCEPCIÓN (rageuse)
L’allusion est de haut goût,
Par Saint Jacques de Compostelle !
Excuse me, what now? Saint James?? Why??? Ravel doesn’t do random. What am I missing?!
Leaving this here as a scream into the universe, just in case some Ravel specialist stumbles across it one day…
#ExistentialOperaQuestions#Ravel#geeky