Curtain Up! Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House - Lauren O’Hara Maileg USA and imagination

and imagination

Collected and retold by award-winning author Angela McAllister and beautifully illustrated by Anna Shepeta

and a hero to those who dare to think differently

―his friends from the forest and all those he has met along the way come to the castle

and crocodile hatchlings hide in their mother's mouths

Curtain Up! Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House - Lauren O’Hara Maileg USA and imaginationIts opening night of The Nutcracker ballet, and the performers at the Royal Opera House in London are busy getting ready to step out onto the stage. Meanwhile, Figarothe opera houses resident catis poised to take readers on a behind the scenes tour to meet the many people working to make tonights performance a resounding success. This backstage tour of the Royal Opera House takes readers from department to departmentfrom the costume closet to the