Release Date

19 May, 2005

Runtime

02:36: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

When Rossini reimagined Cinderella as a comic opera, in which goodness triumphs through song.

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.

Original Title

Rossini: La cenerentola

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Actors

Ruxandra Donose

Luciano di Pasquale

Maxim Mironov

Simone Alberghini

Raquela Sheeran

Lucia Cirillo

Nathan Berg

Vladimir Jurowski

The Glyndebourne Chorus

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Bernard McDonald

Pieter Schoeman

Richard Barker

Susanne Beer

Paul Kimber

Crew

Peter Hall

Vladimir Jurowski

Gioachino Rossini

Hildegard Bechtler

Peter Mumford

Robin Lough

Jacopo Ferretti

Charles Perrault

Moritz Junge

Lynne Hockney

Roberto Polastri

James Robert Carson

Gus Christie

David Pickard