Maurice Ravel: L’Heure espagnole / L’Enfant et les sortilèges
Zurich Opera – 26 January 2018
Musikalische Leitung Pavel Baleff
Inszenierung Jan Eßinger
Bühnenbild Sonja Füsti
Kostüme Jeannette Seiler
Lichtgestaltung Hans-Rudolf Kunz
Choreinstudierung Ernst Raffelsberger
Dramaturgie Kathrin Brunner
L’Heure espagnole
Conception Paula Murrihy
Gonzalve Frédéric Antoun
Torquemada Spencer Lang
Ramiro Andrei Bondarenko
Don Inigo Gomez Michael Hauenstein
L’Enfant et les sortilèges
L’Enfant Deniz Uzun
Maman Paula Murrihy
La Bergère / La Chouette / La Chauve-Souris / Une Pastourelle Hamida Kristoffersen
Le Feu / La Princesse / Le Rossignol Sen Guo
La Tasse Chinoise / La Libellule Irène Friedli
La Chatte / L’Ecureuil / Un Pâtre Gemma Ni Bhriain
L’Horloge / Le Chat Dmytro Kalmuchyn
Le Petit Vieillard / La Rainette François Piolino
La Théière Spencer Lang
Le Fauteuil / L’Arbre Ildo Song
Musikkollegium Winterthur
SoprAlti der Oper Zürich
Zusatzchor der Oper Zürich
Chorzuzüger
Saw this double feature at Zurich opera last week, and was astonished by the musical perfection of "L'Heure espagnole" ... and by the whimsicality and surreality of "L'Enfant"! The production was initially run with a different cast in Winterthur, the orchestra was still the Musikkollegium Winterthur (Scherchen led them from 1922 to 1950, later Welser-Möst and Mario Venzago were principal conductors, currently, Thomas Zehetmair is) and they did pretty well (some goofs amongst the woodwinds in "L'Enfant", but I guess the music is challenging indeed) ... the singers were all convincing, a mixture of seasoned ensemble members, new members and opera studio members - in the intial production, it was all or mostly opera studio members, and the review I read said they had some trouble in making the quite static production of "L'Heure" work ... so waiting for the re-run was probably a good idea.
Got to check out some recordings now ... I have the Ansermet stes and the Decca Ravel works box. For "L'Enfant", I have quite a few (Bour, Ansermet, Maazel, Previn 1981, Dutoit and the recent - still unplayed - Franck), for "L'Heure" it's Ansermet and Maazel. Guess that'll be more than I really need

Either way, all I could find on Ravel's operas was this thread here, not sure there's a general one as well, or one about "L'Heure espagnole".