The Love for Three Oranges

With neat plain buildingblock designs by Jacques Rapp Louis Erlos energeticallystaged production of Prokofievs surreal fairytale for the Lyon Opera is full of cartoon characters and swift farce Based on a play by Carlo Gozzi LAmour 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