In Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges (Otrok in uroki), to a libretto by Colette, a child’s room turns against the child who has mistreated it. Furniture, the clock, a storybook princess, animals and the garden itself come to life, and the world grows larger and stranger until the child begins to see what others have suffered.
Luka Marcen’s staging, performed by students of the University of Ljubljana Academy of Music, fills the stage of Linhart Hall with a towering jumble of ladders, chairs, boxes and picture frames, a playroom that becomes a dreamscape. Sara Slivnik’s set, Ana Janc’s costumes and Klemen Kuhar’s lighting give each apparition its own colour and texture, while the ensemble moves as one body around the solitary figure of the Child. The opera was presented in a double bill with Stravinsky’s Mavra.
Performances: 29 and 30 October 2026, Linhart Hall, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana.
Credits:
Music: Maurice Ravel
Libretto: Colette
Conductor: Simon Dvoršak
Director: Luka Marcen
Set design: Sara Slivnik
Costume design: Ana Janc
Lighting design: Klemen Kuhar
Choreography: Lara Ekar Grlj
Chorus master: Alenka Podpečan
Performers: students of the Department of Singing, Opera Orchestra and Mixed Choir of the UL Academy of Music, RTV Slovenia Youth Choir
Co-production: UL Academy of Music, Slovensko komorno glasbeno gledališče, Cankarjev dom
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