Operatic comedy doesn't get any broader than in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, about a family of grasping heirs, or Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, about a clockmaker's wife whose bawdy hand is always on the prick of noon. The pair of merry one-acts (conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson, picture) closes out the season at Juilliard Opera, which delivers professional-level productions with youthful zeal, bargain tickets, and a chance to guess which singers will be throwing diva tantrums at the Met a decade from now.
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