Maurice Ravel
Have a listen to the final quintet of the opera, which takes the form of a habanera!
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What work first brought Ravel international fame and success?
Ravel’s first international success was his opera L’Heure espagnole (The Spanish Hour), completed in 1909 and first performed in 1911. The opera consists of an orchestral introduction and twenty-one brief scenes, followed by a habanera for the five soloists. The opera, set in Spain in the 18th century, is about a clockmaker whose unfaithful wife attempts to make love to several different men while he is away, leading to them hiding in, and eventually getting stuck in, her husband's clocks.
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Who was Sergei Diaghilev?
