This is 184th in a series spotlighting pigs from the Big Pig Gig Public Art Project taking place in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. Find past pig profiles and event details - and vote for your favorite pig - at Cincinnati.com/bigpiggig

        Artist: Liz Kathman Grubow, 44, Covington, is senior design director at L.P.K. Her other pig is “Pig Out Often” for the Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Association.

        Sponsor: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crain for the Cincinnati Opera.

        This pig's pen: Westin Hotel, Upper Level. The pig will be auctioned on eBay, Nov. 2-9.

        You were inspired by: I have been doing design work for the Cincinnati Opera for years, so they asked me to do something that would be artistic and take in as much of the sense of opera as we could.

        What's the pig idea? It's one of the standing pigs and it has a revolving pig on its back with characters from the opera Rigoletto. There is the Duke, Rigoletto and his daughter Gilda. There are chimes underneath the stage. The story of Rigoletto twirls around the pig in deep purple. The pig is a mottled purple, which is the color that the Cincinnati Opera uses in much of its promotion.

        Completing the project took: From the middle of June until Labor Day.

        What's the matter?: The opera scenery shop was where the stage was constructed. It was the stage crew that built it. I designed templates for the figures that were cut out with a laser cutter.

        Your high on the hog was: Here we were working on this pig in the scenery shop at the same time that the stage crew was building the huge set for the opera Salome. The contrast was pretty funny.

        Pig peeve: The opera Rigoletto is about a curse and I think the curse came to us. We got the pig late. There were building problems and finishing problems. We tried to get a music box in it, but that didn't work. It should have been out for the opera season but it obviously didn't make it.

        My favorite pork dish: I don't eat pigs. I just paint 'em.

        If your pig starred in a movie, who would you cast to play the role? Sherrill Milnes is one of the most famous Rigolettos. I think she'd get a kick out of this.

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