Opera for the Young Opera for the Young Opera for the Young is a professional, touring opera company based in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 1970, it brings professional opera programs to elementary schools throughout the Midwest during its spring and fall tours. With nearly 200 performances, reaching approximately 70,000 children annually, Opera for the Young can be counted among the largest opera outreach programs in the nation. Opera for the Young’s repertoire include age appropriate adaptations of Gretry's "Beauty and the Beast", Massenet's "Cinderella", Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Rossini's "The Barber of Seville", Dvořák's "Rusalka", Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel", Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love",
The Enchanted Pig (opera) by the witch and Adelaide. Offering herself to Adelaide as a spy to keep watch on the pig, Flora is enabled to release him and to live with him in human form happily ever after. In a review of the original production, the critic Michael Billington wrote in "The Guardian": "This is a show that proves opera, at its best, is source of magic and enchantment." In "The Independent", Paul Taylor called it an " exhilarating opera for children (and discerning adults)." Reviewing a 2009 production at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Rupert Christiansen wrote for "The Daily Telegraph": "Dove is