The Manhattan School of Music offers a French double bill.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
French opera in the 1920s was marked by a spirit of wild experimentation. Composers, shocked by the destruction of the First World War, explored subjects from childhood or Greek mythology in an attempt to reach some sort of musical truth. This week, the Manhattan School of Music presented a pair of these works from 1924: Jacques Ibert's Persée et Andromède and Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges, in the conservatory's final opera production of this current season.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Images related to L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (left) and Persée et Andromède presented as a double bill this week by the Manhattan School of Music. |
