The Love for Three Oranges

Overview

With neat, plain building-block designs by Jacques Rapp, Louis Erlo's energetically-staged production of Prokofiev's surreal fairy-tale for the Lyon Opera is full of cartoon characters and swift farce. Based on a play by Carlo Gozzi, "L'Amour des Trois Oranges" tells the story of a doleful, hypochondriac Prince, who can only be cured through laughter. When he breaks into hysterics at the expense of the evil witch Fata Morgana, she curses him. His fate is to fall in love with three oranges

Cast

Gabriel Bacquier

Le Roi de trèfle

Jean-Luc Viala

Le Prince

Georges Gautier

Trouffaldino

Catherine Dubosc

Ninette

Jules Bastin

La cuisinière