BYO presents The Little Green Swallow

'This world of singing apples, talking statues and dangerous quests seemed to cry out for music.' (Jonathan Dove)

From Carlo Gozzi - the 18th-century writer of Turandot and other magical fables - comes a sequel to The Love of Three Oranges.

Written in 1994, The Little Green Swallow was Jonathan Dove's first full-length opera, paving the way for his later Flight, The Enchanted Pig, The Adventures of Pinocchio and Mansfield Park.

In 2008 British Youth Opera gave the third UK production of Flight, heralded as one of the company's most acclaimed productions to date. We are proud to return to Jonathan Dove's music to give the third production of The Little Green Swallow.

The opera is set 18 years after The Love of Three Oranges and weaves commedia dell'arte into a fairy-tale world of intrigue and magic and the truly fabulous cast of 14 includes a court-jester-turned-sausage-vendor, long-lost royal twins, a couple of singing statues, three singing apples (after the previous fable's three oranges) and the little green swallow... who is not what he seems.

In association with Southbank Sinfonia.