(Rossini: La cenerentola)

Content: In late 18th-century Italy, in the mansion of Don Magnifico, the young and pretty Angelina works as a maid. Teased by her two frivolous half-sisters, Clorinda and Tisby, Angelina believes she is in love with a young valet and goes to the ball. Dressed in her finest finery, she meets the man who is in fact the Prince and flees from him after giving him a bracelet that will allow him to recognise her a little later. The masks come off, and kindness and love triumph! ‘La Cenerentola’ is the last opera buffa composed by Gioachino Rossini for an Italian audience. A dramma giocoso in two acts, with a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, freely adapted from Charles Perrault’s fairy tale ‘Cinderella’ (1697), omitting the magic in favour of a realism tinged with humour and social criticism. Premiered for the Rome Carnival at the Teatro Valle in Rome on 28 January 1817. Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera, Lewes, East Sussex, on 2 and 4 June 2005.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Music

Runtime:

156 minutes

Year:

2005

Directors:

Robin Lough

Production companies:

Opus Arte,

Glynbourne,

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Actors:

Angelina (Cenerentola)

Don Magnifico

Prince Don Ramiro

Dandini

Clorinda

Crews:

Stage Director

Conductor

Compositor

Set Designer

Lighting Design