| Original Name | L'enfant et les sortilèges |
| Librettist | Colette |
| Date of composition | 1925 (1917-1925) |
| Premiered | 1925 in Monaco-Ville, Monaco |
| Type | Opera |
| Catalogue | M. 71 |
| Approx. duration | 50 minutes |
| Spoken language | French |
| Instruments |
Orchestra
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - L'enfant (the child) Voice (Tenor) - Maman (the mother) Voice (Bass) - Le fauteuil (armchair) Voice (Soprano) - La bergère Louis XV Voice (Baritone) - L'horloge comtoise (a clock broken by the child) Voice (Tenor) - Le théière (Wedgwood teapot) Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - La tasse chinoise (a broken china cup) Voice (Soprano) - Le feu (the fire in the fireplace) Voice (Soprano) - La princesse (the princess torn out of a storybook) Voice (Soprano) - Une pastourelle Voice (Contralto) - Un pâtre (shepherd) Voice (Tenor) - Le petit vieillard (the small old man representing the torn math book) Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - La chatte (a cat) Voice (Baritone) - le chat (a cat) Voice (Soprano) - La chouette (owl) Voice (Bass) - L'arbre (a tree) Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - La libellule (a dragonfly) Voice (Soprano) - Le rossignol (a nightingale) Voice (Soprano) - La chauve-souris (widower bat) Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - L'écureuil (a squirrel) Voice (Tenor) - La rainette (the tree frog) Chorus/Choir - Le banc, le canapé, le pouf, la chaise de paille Children's chorus - Pâtres and pastoures (shepherds and shepherdesses - torn figures from the decorative wallpaper), Les chiffres (spiteful little numbers that assist the old man in tormenting the child; trees, animals. |
| Autotranslations beta |
Maurice Ravel: The Child and the Spells, M. 71 Maurice Ravel: The Child and the Spells, M. 71 Maurice Ravel: The Child and the Spells, M. 71 |