Soupe Opera

Soupe Opéra is a children's television programme.^[1] It was created in France in the early 1990s and aired on FR3/France 3 in France, and was also aired in Australia, originally on free-to-air, non-commercial channel ABC1, but is now shown more commonly on sister channel ABC2 on the ABC 4 Kids line-up, if at all.^[2] Soupe Opera also aired on Cartoon Network as part of Small World.

Visuals

In each episode, fruit and vegetables spontaneously exit a basket, moving by themselves, and cut themselves up to form animals and objects. The animals formed then perform actions, such as eating the left over food. In some episodes, the food comes out of a garbage bin to form the animal, such as a possum.

Soundtrack

Each episode features more or less the same song, which is played throughout the short episode. It will be slightly different, as there are small sound effects put in when the animal eats, makes noises etc. The main song begins with just a female opera voice singing "Soupe Opéra" in a French accent. Computer generated drums then come in, with a heavy 4/4 beat, and a low voice singing in a kind of a groan "Ah Oo Oo Oh Oo Oh". The sound of this song, with its somewhat random sound effects, has a typically 1990s sound.

Following

This show has developed somewhat of a cult following, particularly in France and Australia. This is mainly among adolescents of the present time, who watched the show when it was aired in the early to mid 1990s. A few original episodes have been posted on YouTube in the past couple of years.

References

External links

• ABC for Kids
• Soupe Opera: Squirrel on YouTube
• Fruit animals from Soupe Opera on YouTube