Pinocchio, An Opera for Children - Delaware Valley Opera, June 2024

Pinocchio, An Opera for Children by John Davies
June 22 & 23, 2024
Pinocchio - Carson Cook
Geppetto/Cat - Lindell Carter
Blue Lady/Olympia - Dana Kluczyk
Dulcamara/ Wolf - Robby Flora
Music Director / Pianist - Martin Yazdzik
Stage Director - Carol Castel
Stage Manager & Costumes - Aly Galvin-Bliefernich
Costumes - Amy Potter
Make-Up - Lily Skuthan

Mr. Davies has created several children's operas to familiar fairy tales and stories. These delightful pieces are a perfect introduction to the operatic art form because all the music is from popular operatic repertoire, written by the masters of the genre. The music is chosen to be immediately accessible to young ears and introduce the original richness and complexity of the art form without dilution.

Mr. Davies has replaced the original words with his own English ones to tell the stories. “Pinocchio” is one of these charming works. The story is the traditional one about Geppetto, a wood worker, who wishes for a son. He is granted his wish. He is to carve a little boy out of wood. This boy will magically become a real boy in time. Meanwhile, he has one peculiar quality --- if he lies, his nose will grow.

The first thing Geppetto does is send this wooden boy, Pinocchio, to school. The naïve wooden fellow meets some bad company on the way to school and is sold to the circus owner, Dulcamara, who wants to add Pinocchio to his collection of novelties as a puppet without strings. He eventually escapes and saves one of the other “novelties” a mechanical doll.

The adventure teaches Pinocchio all about justice, life, love, and honesty.


The Delaware Valley Opera is a member of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County, NY.
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