The Opera Group
The Enchanted Pig (2006)
The Enchanted Pig (2006)
A Young Vic & The Opera Group co-production
Music by Jonathan Dove
Words by Alasdair Middleton
Please contact Sherry Neyhus on + 44 20 7922 2846 for international touring availability in 2009.
The real success of the show is its combination of realism and romance. The Young Vic’s Christmas show is a source of magic and enchantment. ****
The Guardian
The whole show casts a spell of wonder and delight.
The Daily Telegraph
Time Out Critics Choice *****
What more could you ask of a musical fairy tale? It keeps children and adults, well, spellbound. Pretty damn good for what is essentially an opera.
Variety
When you’re a princess you expect a fairytale wedding. You don’t expect your husband to be hairy, smelly and a genuine pig. The pig, of course, is an enchanted prince but Flora loses him almost as soon as she finds him. Taking her fate into her own hands, she ventures to the ends of the earth and even into the sky until at last she frees him from the evil spell that binds him. Based on a Romanian folktale, this is a terrifically tuneful family show.
Direction John Fulljames
Design Dick Bird
Lighting Paul Anderson
Movement Philippe Giraudeau
Keith Pattison
Supported by
Peter Moores Foundation, Columbia Foundation, Foyle Foundation