A Brief Synopsis of Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole
	Winter Term Opera Theater to Be Sung in French		It is the clockmaker Torquemada's day to regulate the municipal clocks, and his wife Concepción's day to entertain her lovers. When Ramiro, a muleteer, visits the clockshop to have his watch repaired, Concepcion worries that his presence will ruin her rendezvous with the poet Gonzalve. To distract Ramiro, Concepción asks him to carry out various tasks. Another suitor, Don Inigo, arrives, and a hilarious attempt to hide the lovers from each other and smuggle each of them to her bedroom without Ramiro noticing ensues. Finally, Concepción--weary of her suitors' antics--exits with the virile muleteer. Torquemada then returns, and the opera ends with a moral from Boccaccio.
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