Cendrillon - Royal Oper House (2011)

Plot Summary

Massenet composed his opera about Cenerentola nearly 80 years after Rossini did his. And if you are looking for the outburst of the non-stop hilarity and the musical jokes of Rossini, you won't find it here. Also, while the Cendrillon was highly successful and popular in its time, it does not reach up to the artistic and musical levels offered by Massenet's other operas, like Manon, or Thais or Werther. Nevertheless, this is a delightful opera and it is well presented by The Royal Opera. Laurent Pelly created a ingenious setting with movable walls which are covered [in French] with the story of Cinderella, and which open and close book-like.

Full Cast & Characters

Joyce DiDonato

Cendrillon / Lucette

Eglise Gutiérrez

La Fée

Alice Coote

Le Prince Charmant

Ewa Podleś

Madame de la Haltière, stepmother of Cendrillon

Jean-Philippe Lafont

Pandolfe, Cendrillon’s father

Madeleine Pierard

Noémie, stepsister of Cendrillon

Kai Rüütel

Dorothée, stepsister of Cendrillon

Jeremy White

Le Roi

Harry Nicoll

Le Doyen de la Faculté

Dawid Kimberg

Le Surintendant des plaisirs

John-Owen Miley-Read

Le Premier Ministre

Adrien Mastrosimone

Le Héraut

Director & Crew

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