La cenerentola - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Text by Jacopo Ferretti
Dramma giocoso in two acts


Musical direction
Stefano Montanari

Staging
Sven-Eric Bechtolf

Stage
Rolf Glittenberg

Costumes
Marianne Glittenberg

Light
Jürgen Hoffmann

Don Ramiro
Dmitry Korchak

Dandini
Michael Arivony

Don Magnifico
Pietro Spagnoli

Angelina
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya

Clorinda
Maria Nazarova

Tisbe
Alma Neuhaus

Alidoro
Roberto Tagliavini


Contents

The list of Cinderella adaptations is long - no wonder, as generations of viewers were moved by the story of the unhappy stepdaughter, who is ultimately allowed to experience a happy ending. Why? Perhaps less because of the wealthy prince's "rescue" than because of the final affirmation that kindness and a pure heart can conquer all adversity. Gioachino Rossini secularized the fairytale-like, supernatural elements of the material and interspersed the French touching play that served as a model with socio-critical elements from the opera buffa tradition. His Cenerentola thus became a modern retelling of a well-known, old fairytale whose heroes have to prove themselves in the depths, injustices and absurdities of a disenchanted present. Musically, he created a so-called »semiseria«, i.e. a half-serious opera in which he mixed his brilliant buffo art with sentimental and occasionally even tragic tones. Sven-Eric Bechtolf's staging shifts the action to the fictional and whimsical mini-kingdom of San Sogno.



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