25 Great Movies Inspired By Folk Tales
By Meagan Drillinger, Stacker News
On 8/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
The folk tale tradition from fairy tales to ghost stories has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time immemorial for recording information, teaching morality, and untangling some of life s greatest mysteries.
Stacker surveyed film history and compiled a list of movies across decades, countries, and genres that drew their inspiration from the folk tale tradition, with accompanying IMDb and Metacritic data. The 25 films chosen are organized alphabetically. To qualify, the film had to be inspired by a folk or fairy tale (or tales) and have at least 2,500 votes. Some that made the list are direct reimaginings of classic tales, such as
Award winning independent company Australian Contemporary Opera Co celebrates a return to the Melbourne main-stage with the revival of Gale Edwards brilliant and acclaimed festival production of the London and New York hit, The Enchanted Pig. This heartwarming, uplifting, tuneful family show has all the hallmarks of The Princess Bride, Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella - with sophisticated appeal for all ages.
The story tells of a young princess and her two sisters. Their father King Hildebrand warns them not to enter a secret room in the castle that contains the Book of Fate. Curiosity gets the better of them all and they disobey him. What they read in the book must now come to pass and so the older sisters will marry kings but the youngest, Flora, will wed a pig. Naturally, she is horrified, at least to begin with.
New national opera company launches with a song of love and loss
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When four singers get up on the Federation Square stage on Friday evening to perform a modern opera about love and loss, it marks the birth of a new national opera company, with ambitious plans to bring new audiences to opera, and take opera to new places.
The Australian Contemporary Opera Company (pronounce it “A-coco” for short) has not appeared from nowhere. It is a rebranding of Gertrude Opera, founded as The Opera School Melbourne in 2008.