Open Your Eyes To Opera - Ravel's L'heure Espagnole

A French one-act comedic opera, featuring five talented young opera singers at the start of their careers. The opera is set in Spain in the 18th century and is about a clockmaker whose unfaithful wife attempts to see other men while he is away, leading to them hiding in, and eventually getting stuck in, her husband’s clocks.

Cast:
Torquemada, a clockmaker played by Guy Beynon
Concepción, Torquemada’s wife played by Phoebe Rayner
Gonzalve, a student poet played bv Jack Dolan
Ramiro, a muleteer played by Michael Temporal Darrell
Don Iñigo Gomez, a banker played by Dominic Felts

Conductor: Chris Stark
Assistant Conductor: Olivia Tait
Leader: John Crawford