This Little Piggy

We are in the midst of our first week of the new season with four new Resident Artists (come get your first glimpse and hear them for the first time at our wine tasting at Bosc in Simsbury on September 21^st or at Opera Uncorked on September 29^th.) It’s always exciting to get a new crop of singers in and hear and see what they can do. (see their bios and head shots at http://www.ctopera.org/educational/resident.asp)

In the spirit of the new children’s show that they are in the midst of staging, The Three Little Pigs, here’s some useless trivia about pigs:

• The world’s pig population is approximately 857,100,000.
• A pig always sleeps on its right side.
• A gruntle is the best word to describe the snout of a pig.
• A pig’s skin is thickest on its back, where it can be up to one-sixth-inch thick.

Taken from The Ultimate Book of Useless Information