2025 The Enchanted Pig2025-01-31T13:55:08+00:00
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Youth Opera 2025 Production


Audition Workshop Weekend

Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April – 11am to 7pm

Parklea Primary School, Kinross Crescent, Luton LU3 3JU

Performance Dates

Wednesday 27th – Saturday 30th August 2025 – Venue TBC


Synopsis

The Enchanted Pig tells the story of Princess Flora, who accidentally reads in The Book of Fate that she is to marry a pig. The pig comes and claims her, but that night he transforms into a handsome Prince; he explains that an evil witch has cursed him, but to be patient.

Unable to wait, Flora meets an old woman who tells her of a spell she can cast while the Prince is asleep in order to release him. She casts the spell, but the Prince wakes up and tells her that the old woman has played a trick on her… the old woman appears and reveals that she is the Witch in disguise, and has now claimed the Prince for her own daughter. She tells Flora she will never see her Prince again, unless she walks the earth and wears out three pairs of iron shoes.

Undeterred, Flora searched the world for her Prince, meeting the North Wind, the Moon and the Sun, who all help her to find him. But when she finally does, is she too late?


Summer Course

  • Principals’ Weekend – 12th & 13th July
  • Chorus Weekend – 19th & 20th July

Parklea Primary School, Kinross Crescent, Luton LU3 3JU

Main Rehearsal Period

  •  Saturday 9th to Tuesday 19th August – Parklea School
  • Wednesday 20th to Tuesday 26th August – Venue TBC
  • Performance DatesWednesday 27th – Saturday 30th August 2025 – Venue TBC

Once you have accepted a principal or chorus role, you will be expected to attend all the rehearsals that you are scheduled for during the summer course. The schedule will be released as soon as possible after casting.

Cost of the Summer Course – £330

Luton Music Gala Concert

During the course we will also be rehearsing for a Gala Concert to be performed in Luton to fundraise and promote the opera performances.

  • Gala Concert: Monday 18th August

St Mary’s Church, Church Street, Luton, LU1 3JF

For more information, please e-mail us at opera@bedfordshiremusictrust.org.uk.

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