The Love for Three Oranges

The Love for Three Oranges

105 mins | Sept. 20, 1989

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

The Love for Three Oranges

105 mins | Sept. 20, 1989

The Love for Three Oranges
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
Producers VTCOM France Telecom
Original title The Love for Three Oranges
Directors
Writers Vera Janacopoulos, Sergei Prokofiev

Cast

Gabriel Bacquier

as Le Roi de trèfle

Jean-Luc Viala

as Le Prince

Georges Gautier

as Trouffaldino

Catherine Dubosc

as Ninette

Jules Bastin

as La cuisinière