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The Love for Three OrangesThe Love for Three Oranges

The Love for Three Oranges

Libretto:
Sergei Prokofiev, based on L'Amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi

Premiere:
Chicago Opera,
December 1921

Conductor:
Robert Wood

Director:
Nicholas Muni

Designer:
C. David Higgins


Set in a Mythical Kingdom, long ago

In this fantastical farce, a prince is dying of gloom, and laughter is the only cure, but the sorceress Fata Morgana, the wicked prime minister, and an even more wicked Princess Clarissa, are preventing it.

When the sorceress herself is accidentally turned upside down by the palace guards, the ridiculous antics finally make the prince laugh. But Fata puts a curse on him, by which he must find and fall in love with three oranges. Follow his journey to distant lands to discover that each orange holds a beautiful princess.

Sung in English with English supertitles