Overview

Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a tyrannical stepfather instead of a cruel stepmother, Rossini’s la Cenerentola plays with these most conventional of fairy‑tale characters. Nonetheless Cinderella lives in a closed world devoid of tenderness and under the yoke of the tormentor whom she protects. Deep beneath her goodness smoulders a fire that her encounter with the prince will set free… Guillaume Gallienne subtly highlights the halftones of this dramma giocoso, somewhere between opera buffa and opera seria, and ranging from sombre melancholy to the burlesque.

Top Cast

L

Lawrence Brownlee

Don Ramiro

Marianne Crebassa

Angelina

Florian Sempey

Dandini

Alessandro Corbelli

Don Magnifico

Adam Plachetka

Alidoro

C

Chiara Skerath

Clorinda

I

Isabelle Druet

Tisbe

Evelino Pidò

Conductor