Can opera be cute? With its enormous, brightly colored sheep and a gamboling, high-heeled shepherd looking like a Prince-infused satyr, Florentine Opera's "Acis and Galatea" makes that case.

The Cyclops Polyphemus falls in love with the beautiful nymph Galatea, but she rejects him in favor of Acis, a shepherd. Furious, Polifemo goes in search of Acis to take revenge. Animated short ...

AND YOU CAN SEE IT IN MILWAUKEE THIS WEEKEND. THE FLORENTINE OPERA IS PERFORMING ACIS AND GALATEA. JOINING ME NOW IS MAGGIE OPPLIGER, THE GENERAL DIRECTOR AND CEO OF THE FLORENTINE OPERA.