Ravel double-bill review – inventive, witty ... and unbalanced

Glyndebourne festival
Danielle de Niese commands the stage and there are irresistible moments in both one-act operas, but with differing production values, the evening doesn’t gel as a wholeIn Laurent Pelly’s 2012 productions of Ravel’s two one-act operas, the female leads were in different hands. This time, in Glyndebourne’s first revival of Pelly’s performances, Danielle de Niese sings both Concepción in L’Heure Espagnole and the Child in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.