L'heure espagnole

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

L'heure espagnole is a French one-act opera from 1911, described as a comédie musicale, with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on Franc-Nohain's 1904 play ('comédie-bouffe') of the same name The opera, set in Spain in the 18th century, is about a clockmaker whose unfaithful wife attempts to have sex with several different men while he is away, leading to them hiding in, and eventually getting stuck in, her husband's clocks.

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