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The Little Girl, the Huntsman and the Wolf: who's afraid of contemporary opera? Not us!

2024-02-01T14:20:17.037Z

Highlights: The Little Girl, the Huntsman and the Wolf: who's afraid of contemporary opera? Not us!. Bastille introduces young people to this art, revisiting the tales with humility and poetry. This is the bittersweet fable told to us by composer Vasco Mendonça and librettist Gonçalo M. Tavares in La… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 62% left to discover. Unlock all items immediately. TEST FOR €0.99 Already subscribed? Log in.


REVIEW - In Bastille, The Little Girl, the Hunter and the Wolf introduces young people to this art, revisiting the tales with humility and poetry.


Is it his fault he has fangs?

Only in tales do we promise happy hunger.

To eat or to be eaten, that is the question.

There are times when it would make him want to scream.

He who dreams of being gentle as a lamb... He barely dares to show his voice in public.

Fearing that his cry would frighten someone smaller than him.

Or that it attracts hunters.

It's won!

Here is the hunted tracker.

Sneaking through the foliage, our solitary canine crosses paths with two little pigs, a little girl and her grandmother who, behind her big teeth, hides a big, bad hunter.

It's time to settle the story.

What if, under the hood's clothes, the face of forgiveness was hidden?

This is our gray wolf of human empathy.

Singing his hope to the friendly moon, between two guitar

slides

and… Three gunshots!

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This is the bittersweet fable told to us by composer Vasco Mendonça and librettist Gonçalo M. Tavares in

La…

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