・One-hour children’s opera with onomatopoetic elements (animal sounds)
・New Urtext edition based on the first prints and autograph sources
・New piano vocal score matching the performance material

Characters:
L’Enfant | The Child (Mez) – Maman | Mama (A) – La Bergère | The Bergère (S) – Le Fauteuil | The Armchair (B) – L’Horloge comtoise | The Comtoise Clock (Bar) – La Théière | The Teapot (T) – La Tasse | The Cup (Mez/A) – Le Feu | The Fire (S) – Un Pâtre | A Shepherd (A) – Une Pastourelle | A Shepherdess (S) – La Princesse | The Princess (S) – Le petit Vieillard | The Little Old Man (Trial-T) – Le Chat | The Tomcat (Bar) – La Chatte | The She-Cat (Mez) – L’Arbre | The Tree (B) – La Libelulle | The Dragonfly (Mez) – Le Rossignol | The Nightingale (S) – La Chauve-souris | The Bat (S) – L’Écureuil | The Squirrel (Mez) – La Rainette | The Frog (T) – Une Chouette | Un Owl (S)
Les Pastoures, Les Pâtres, Les Chiffres, Les Arbres, Les Rainettes, Les Bêtes | The Shepherdesses, The Shepherds, The Numbers, The Trees, The Frogs, The Animals (Chœur | Choir)

L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Ravel’s (and Colette’s) children’s opera, quasi the French Peter and the Wolf, is a must-have in the series of orchestral and music theater editions of Maurice Ravel’s works published by Breitkopf & Härtel.

Once again, Ravel expert Jean-François Monnard presents an Urtext edition, which in this case is based on the first printings and all autograph sources. It turns out, however, that even in the revised edition of the original publisher, the composer’s surviving piano vocal reduction deviates surprisingly far from the conductor’s score in some passages and can only be used to a limited extent for rehearsals. In this respect, the new piano vocal reduction in particular corrects many misleading passages.

The edition will be published early in the Ravel Year 2025 (150th birthday on March 7). The score and piano vocal reduction include German and English prose translations of the libretto in the appendix.