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** 1/2 “L’Heure Espagnole.” ** 1/2 “L’Enfant et les Sortileges.”

Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Home Vision. $29.95 each.

These two cassettes of Glyndebourne productions are natural pairings of the Ravel one-acts--both directed by Frank Corsaro and designed by Maurice Sendak, and the ensemble casts share some members--that somehow turn out quite contradictorily. The musically more elaborate “L’Enfant” is largely undersung, with Sendak stealing the show, abetted by animator Ronald Chase. The nursery and the night-blooming garden come alive dramatically, all pastels and moody lighting, filled with anthropomorphic furniture and whimsical animals. The simpler “L’Heure Espagnole,” on the other hand, is vocally more radiant but visually confusing. A single set seems to be at once the clockmaker Torquemada’s shop interior, an open plaza and a large clock, on which the characters enter as mechanical figures. That suggests an uncharacteristic and unconvincing manipulative part for the fuddled clockmaker, though the obscure intention seems to aim at pure fantasy rather than symbolism.