Genuinely open minded as to whether I'm being unreasonable or not.
I took DD to the London Symphony Orchestra family concert on Sunday. The title was "The King who tried to change his Fate" and it was billed as "an introduction to symphonic storytelling" for ages 7+ (although there were a lot of younger kids there). The music was wonderful as you'd expect. The story was this:
A king meets a fortune teller and is told his fate, which is that his soon-to-be-born daughter will marry the son of a serving girl. The king isn't happy about this and so tricks the serving girl into coming with him into the woods and then murders her with his sword.
Sixteen years later, the king comes across a teenage boy. The boy is rude and the king is about to execute him when an old woman pleads for mercy. She tells the king that she found the boy as a baby: for weeks her goat had been going out to the woods and coming back with dry udders, she decided to follow the goat to the woods and came across the murdered woman and the baby that had somehow been born from her corpse. The baby had been suckling the goat to survive.
Of course after various other twists and turns the princess marries the boy.
Am I being unreasonable to think that this is unsuitable for seven year olds? I'm in my 40s and found it pretty disturbing. I get that it's a fairy tale, and fairy tales are often violent and nasty, but butchering heavily pregnant women seems extreme.
AIBU?