Emily Kilpatrick @ekilpatrick.bsky.social · 07/03/202522. In his first opera, L’heure espagnole, Ravel not only parodies Wagnerian leitmotifs, but uses ‘Tristan’ chords as a deliberate comic shorthand (‘thwarted desire!’). #Ravel150 100 0
Emily Kilpatrick @ekilpatrick.bsky.social · 07/03/202523. When the director of the Opéra-Comique rejected his opera Ravel wrote, ‘I realise now that the least innocent foible of Carmen, Manon, Chrysis or Queen Fiamette was picking their nose too much.’ #Ravel150 100 0
Emily Kilpatrick @ekilpatrick.bsky.social · 07/03/202524. An influential Parisian hostess intervened to get L’heure espagnole onstage: ‘Her first impulse was to write to Carré’, Ravel writes; ‘After mature consideration she decided nevertheless to follow her impulse, and the most pungent exchange of correspondence followed.' 100 0
