La cenerentola - Schedule, Program & Tickets

musical direction
Gianluca Capuano
Staging
Sven-Eric Bechtolf
stage
Rolf Glittenberg
Costumes
Marianne Glittenberg
light
Jürgen Hoffmann
Don Ramiro
Lawrence Brownlee
Dandini
Vito Priante
Don Magnifico
Paolo Bordogna
Angelina
Anna Goryachova
Alidoro
Erwin scrap

The list of Cinderella adaptations is long - no wonder, generations of viewers were moved by the story of the unhappy stepdaughter, who ultimately has a happy ending. Why? Perhaps less because of the "salvation" by the wealthy prince than through the final confirmation that goodness and a pure heart can conquer all adversities. Gioachino Rossini secularized the fairy-tale-supernatural moments of the material and interspersed the French touching piece, which served as a template, with socially critical elements from the tradition of the opera buffa. His Cenerentola thus became a modern retelling of a well-known, old fairy tale, whose heroes have to prove themselves in the depths, injustices and absurdities of a disenchanted present. Musically, he created a so-called "semiseria", a semi-serious opera in which he mixed his brilliant buffo art with sentimental and occasionally even tragic tones. Sven-Eric Bechtolf's staging shifts the plot to the fictional and whimsical mini-kingdom of San Sogno.

Subject to changes.