Despite their parents' instructions, Delphine and Marinette prefer to play with their new can of paint rather than go and work in the fields.
But catastrophically, the animals used as models, once painted, metamorphose, like decals of the paintings.
The horse is tiny, the donkey has only two legs and the white oxen exist only by their horns.
Based on Marcel Aymé's delightful text, this children's opera can be enjoyed without a single false note: a delicate composition by Isabelle Aboulker for piano and two lyrical voices (mezzo-contralto and baritone),
a meticulous musical and theatrical interpretation, a stage direction that serves the subject with acuity, elegance and humour, right down to the set design that plays the simplicity card in its plastic illustration.
A poetic and funny vision of the world.