The Met should revive its “Parade” triple bill
John Dexter and David Hockney‘s French triple bill of Poulenc‘s Les mamelles de Tirésias, Satie‘s Parade, and Ravel‘s L’enfant et les sortilèges, last seen in 2002. This clip is from Barcelona but you can enjoy Gabriel Bermúdez nonetheless.
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Emery Kerekes concurs:
The MET used to have Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges on rotation, in a triple-bill with Poulenc’s absurd Les mamelles de Tirésias and Satie’s Dadaist ballet Parade, which includes four minutes of a Picasso-designed horse dancing without music. I’d take that zany remount — or else, Peter Gelb could swipe Glyndebourne’s gorgeous Laurent Pelly production of a more typical double-bill, featuring Ravel’s other one-act, L’heure espagnole.
