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 ...