tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post6388344019275365396..comments2024-02-15T07:56:02.706+00:00Comments on Capriccio: Ravel double bill at GlyndebourneCapricciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11066947469648187572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post-79467449129308418362012-08-19T23:36:41.128+01:002012-08-19T23:36:41.128+01:00They are very different to Pelleas as I say, but t...They are very different to Pelleas as I say, but they offer the most exquisite examples of the other side of French opera - light hearted, sentimental, funny, insouciant, naively touching - where Debussy's represents the apogee of the brooding, perfumed, languorous, dreamily erotic side of French opera.Capricciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066947469648187572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5998744234538946992.post-80902009130919546182012-08-19T19:37:10.955+01:002012-08-19T19:37:10.955+01:00While I admire Ravel’s operas I really don’t like ...While I admire Ravel’s operas I really don’t like it when they are compared (in any way) to the astonishingly beautiful melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and coloristic inventions found in <i>Pelleas et Melisande</i> – one of the absolute wonders of Western music.<br /><br /> The Wistful Pelleastrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391989065502028363noreply@blogger.com