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Music: Maurice Ravel. Lyrics: Franc-Nohain (pseudonym for Maurice Étienne Legrand.
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Worldpremičre at : Paris Opéra-Comique 19 maj 1911. Swedish premičre: Royal Opera in Stockholm,24 september 1925.
| Role | Voicetype |
|---|---|
| Concepcion | soprano |
| Don Inigo Gomez | bass |
| Gonzalve | tenor |
| Ramiro | baritone |
| Torquemada | tenor |
Ramiro while he regulates the town clocks. Concepción is worried because she is expecting her lover, the poet Gonzalve. She manages to clear Ramiro out, telling him to take a clock to her bedroom just as Gonzalve arrives. When Ramiro comes back down, she tells him that se wants the clock back downstairs. She hides Gonzalve in another clock which she then commands Ramiro to carry upstairs. Don Inigo, a banker, arrives to court Concepción but decides to hide in the first clock. Concepción returns and demands the removal of the second clock, and during this absence Don Inigo attempts to seduce her. Oblivious, Ramiro again carries the first clock back upstairs. Gonzalve emerges from his clock but returns when he hears Ramiro approaching. Concepción once again demands the removal of the first clock and in Ramiro´s absence she bemoans the lunacy of the situation. Ramiro returns with the first clock - in which Don Inigo finds himself stuck - and Concepción suggests that she and Ramiro go upstairs together. When Torquemada arrives home he finds two men locked in his clocks. They explain that they are interested in his work and, after reluctantly agreeing to purchase the timepieces, they are freed by Ramiro.
