List of The Little Prince adaptations

Vinyl record narrating The Little Prince, excerpted from the longer RPM vinyl record album. Burton won the Best Children's Album Grammy Award for his narration (1975). • 1954: An audio adaptation, as a vinyl record, was made with the French actor Gérard Philipe in the role of The Narrator, Georges Poujouly as The Prince, Pierre Larquey in the role of The Lamplighter, Michel Roux in the role of The Serpent, Jacques Grello in the role of The Fox, and Sylvie Pelayo in the role of The Rose. • 1956: Raymond Burr starred in a radio adaptation of The Little Prince on The CBS Radio Workshop. • 1974: Jon Farrell's adaptation, with Nigel Stock as Narrator and Gwyn Guthrie as The Little Prince, was broadcast on 13 April 1974 on BBC Radio 4 with incidental music by Wilma Paterson. • 1999: BBC Radio 4 broadcast, on Christmas Day 1999 (and subsequently repeated), a dramatization by Bonnie Greer of a new translation into English of The Little Prince. Produced by Pam Fraser Solomon, and with music composed by Keith Waithe, the dramatization starred Robert Powell as the aviator and narrator, Garrett Moore as The Little Prince, and Bernard Cribbins as The King, The Drunkard, and The Lamplighter. It was repeated in May 2002. An audio cassette recording is available in the BBC Radio Collection series. Cassette tape and CD • 1959: An audio cassette adaptation in German, with Will Quadflieg in the role of narrator. • 1994: Adapted to a CD, by Matthew Mancini and others, with music by Fabio Concato, directed by Marco Carniti, on the EMI label from Milan, Italy in 1994 • 1996: Marc André Coallier narrated Le Petit Prince, supported by Marc-André Grondin, Sophie Stanké, Paul Buissoneau, Ghislain Tremblay, Gaston Lepage, Jean-Pierre Gonthier and Gilbert Lachance. The accompanying music was performed by Alexandre Stanké. • 1998: A CD adaptation is directed by Romain Victo-Pujebet, with rumors of Philippe Leroy, Lella Costa with original music by Olivier Priszlak, released in Paris by Gallimard and in Milan by Pontaccio. • 1999: An audiobook adaptation on the Patmos label, read by Ulrich Mühe, wins a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik award in 2000 (). • 2009: Hörbuch von Rausch (Ecstasy Audiobook) adaptation of Der kleine Prinz, with a new translation narrated by Jan Josef Liefers == Film and television ==

• 1966: A Soviet–Lithuanian film adaptation Mažasis princas (), was made by Arūnas Žebriūnas. • 1966: The German DDR network broadcasts a TV movie of Der Kleine Prinz by Konrad Wolf • 1974: The first English film musical adaptation, titled The Little Prince, directed by Stanley Donen for Paramount Pictures, debuted to mixed reviews • 1990: A 60-minute German ZDF animated film, Der Kleine Prinz, is produced by Theo Kerp, featuring the voices of Sabine Bohlmann, Joachim Hoeppner, and Cornelia Froboess. : 1990: A French film adaptation is released as Le Petit Prince by Jean-Louis Guillermou, with Guy Gravis, Daniel Royan and Alexandre Warner. • 2004: An operatic adaptation based on the music of Rachel Portman (featuring Willard White and Lesley Garrett) was broadcast on the UK's BBC Two television network on 27 November 2004, as a studio-filmed production starring Joseph McManners as The Prince and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as The Pilot, and later released as a DVD. The TV series is produced in collaboration with France Télévisions, TV5 Monde, the Swiss Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) and the Italian Rai Fiction, and licensed for distribution in many countries worldwide. The animated movie is titled as Le Petit Prince 4D, produced by nWave Pictures, with effects by Parc du Futuroscope. : 2011: Der kleine Prinz is produced for DVD in Berlin, directed by Lorenz Christian Köhler. • 2012: The Little Prince TV series was translated into Scottish Gaelic. == Ballet ==

The novella has been transformed into ballet productions on a number of occasions, including in: • 1982: Malenkiy prints ballet with the music of Belarusian composer Yevgeniy Glebov is performed for the first time in Helsinki; next year it was also staged in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, with Nina Ananiashvili in the cast. • 1985: Der Kleine Prinz ballet is performed by the Gregor Seyffert Company Anhalt Theatre in Dessau, Germany • 1987: The Los Angeles Chamber Ballet produced The Little Prince for two performances at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California, choreographed the previous year by Victoria Koenig, Raiford Rogers, Patrick Frantz and Stanley Holden, with a musical score by Lloyd Rodgers. • 2010: The Ballet d’Europe performed The Little Prince in a new ballet choreographed by Florencia Gonzalez and performed by nine dancers, with a score by René Aubry. • 2012: Les Grands Ballets Canadiens produced the story as ballet, performed at Montreal's Place des Arts venue and choreography by Didy Veldman. It received a mixed reviews in the Toronto Globe and Mail, being said to suffer from "choreographic sameness and evenness of tone." • 2014: The Hurjaruuth Dance Theater in Helsinki, Finland created a new production, with direction by Arja Pettersson, expressing the story's elements of friendship, loneliness, the search for happiness and the thrill of life in general, and also depicting adult idiosyncrasies. • 2015: The National Ballet of Canada of Toronto, Ontario, Canada announced a future full-length adaptation of the story premiering in its 2015–16 season, to be choreographed by Guillaume Côté, with its score composed by Kevin Lau and its libretto written by Adam Gopnik. == Graphic novel ==

• 2008: French artist Joann Sfar drew a graphic novel adaptation of The Little Prince that was released in 2008 by Éditions Gallimard in France. • 2012–2015: see The Little Prince (2010 TV series)#Book series == Operas and musical productions ==

in Santiago, Chile (2011) • 1964: Russian operatic composer Lev Knipper wrote a three-part symphony in 1962, This production has received the full endorsement of the Saint-Exupéry Estate. • 2022: A stage musical for The Little Prince,, with a libretto by Chris Mouron and original music by Terry Tuck ran on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre from March 30 to May 8, 2022 as part of an international tour that included runs in Paris, Sydney, and Dubai. It was directed and choreographed by Anne Tournié, with Mouron as co-director. == Live theatre dramas ==

• 1950: The first German theatrical adaptation of Der Kleine Prinz is created by puppeteer Rudolf Fischer. • 1971: An Italian theatrical adaptation is produced by Remo Rostagno and Bruna Pilgrims as Il piccolo principe di Saint-Exupéry, letto, interpretato e riscritto da un gruppo di bambini di undici anni (The Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry, read, interpreted and rewritten by a group of children of eleven years of age). • 1987: Adapted to live theatre in English by David Zucker, produced by Esquire Jauchem and Peter Ellenstein as The Little Prince, featuring David Morse and Bridget Hoffman, at the Cast Theatre and Burbage Theatre in Los Angeles, California, United States* Zucker's adaptation was previously produced by Boston Repertory Theatre Multiple times in the 1970s-1980s. • 1988: It has also been adapted to "The night I wanted to go to the sky" by Kuo Pao Kun in Singapore. • 1994: Adapted to live theatre in Italian as Il piccolo principe, featuring Maria Antonietta and Giuseppina Canapa, at the Aperto Theater in Osimo, Ancona, Italy • 2000: A play adaptation of The Little Prince was written by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar. • 2002: The French-language musical, Le Petit Prince, by composer Riccardo Cocciante, ran at the Casino de Paris from October 2002 to January 2003. Daniel Lavoie played The Pilot while Jeff Tetedoie played The Prince. It was reprised at the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre in July 2007, and in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in January 2008 with lyrics by Elizabeth Anais. == Music and cultural references ==

• 1974: Rock band Genesis's initial concept for their 1974 album (that became The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) was initially The Little Prince. • In 1975, Yehonatan Geffen wrote a song called The Little Prince, telling about a soldier who served alongside him and was killed during a combat exercise. The song contains numerous allusions to the book. • 1979: The Russian rock band Mashina Vremeni played a concert program in 1979–80, called The Little Prince and included intersong quotations from the book. The whole concept of the program (the live version was released in 2000) was based on the story and the philosophy of the book. • 1994: Le Petit Prince à La Geode, a multimedia show with music by Giuseppe Verdi and Claude Debussy, was produced by Gianni Ravens and Pierre Goismier at the Géode Music Hall in Paris, France • 1997: An orchestral suite is conducted by Nicholas Schapfl, in Shanghai, China • 1999: Jana Kirschner, a lead slovak singer has a song "Fox", named after a character from the book. The lyrics of the song deal with the relationship between The Little Prince and The Fox. • 2002: The cover art of the Japanese band P-MODEL's album Perspective was inspired by the book; the album also includes the song , whose lyrics (written by P-MODEL member Susumu Hirasawa), also reference the book. • 2006: French singer Mylène Farmer has recorded a song, "Dessine-moi un Mouton" ("Draw me a sheep"), which alludes to The Little Prince. • 2016: The South Korean singer Kim Ryeowook of idol group Super Junior released his first solo minialbum entitled "The Little Prince" which features the lead single of the same name. • 2019: South Korean alt-rock band Onewe released "Regulus", which is written from the perspective of ''The Little Prince's'' title character. == Other cultural references ==

• 1970s: Actor James Dean's fondness for the work extended to his memorizing most of its passages. The nickname of his 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, "The Little Bastard", is a play on words of his favorite book. A stylized sculpture in memorial to Dean was built in Cholame, California during the late 1970s. It carries a plaque quoting the Little Prince that reads: "What is essential is invisible to the eye", a phrase which Dean reportedly quoted often. • 2024: The Little Prince was present in an animation that was part of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. It shows the Little Prince on an asteroid with a fox and a rose. == Games ==

• 2003: The boardgame, Der Kleine Prinz, designed by Kai Haferkamp and published by Kosmos, is a semi-cooperative game, somewhat like Cranium, wherein the players try to help the little prince "tame the fox" by performing activities and guessing games. • 2011: The video games Kingdom Hearts and Super Mario Galaxy have many similarities to the descriptions and pictures from the original book. • 2014: OneShot contains several references to the book and its characters, especially inside the Solstice expansion. • 2015: ''The Little Prince 2: Kingdom's Rights'' is a free computer flash game based on the story. • 2021: Sky: Children of the Light, developed by thatgamecompany, held a seasonal event based on the story in honor of the original book's 75th anniversary. • 2023: The character Demian in Limbus Company primarily takes inspiration from the eponymous character in Demian, but also references The Little Prince in both character design and quotes. == References ==