Credit: Unknown artist. Restoration by Adam Cuerden
The stage setting for Part 1 of Maurice Ravel's opera, L'enfant et les sortilèges. The libretto by Colette tells the story of a rude child whose destructive behaviour is ultimately transformed when the objects and animals he has harmed come to life and reprimand him. Marie-Thérèse Gauley sang the role of the child at both the 1925 world premiere in Monte-Carlo and the opera's first performance at the Opéra-Comique in 1926.