Name: La Cenerentola
Start: 2024-05-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gran Teatre del Liceu

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Sunnyboy Dladla

Don Ramiro

Javier Camarena

Baritone

Carles Pachon

Dandini

Florian Sempey

Bass

Paolo Bordogna

Don Magnifico

Soprano

Isabella Gaudí

Clorinda

Mezzo-soprano

Marina Pinchuk

Tisbe

Erwin Schrott

Alidoro

Orchestra

Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

Pablo Ruiz

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Stage director

Emma Dante

Set designer

Carmine Maringola

Costume designer

Vanessa Sannino

Choreographer

Manuela Lo Sicco

Lighting designer

Cristian Zucaro

Revival

Federico Gagliardi

Assistant Stage Director

Inés García-Pertierra

Conductor

Giacomo Sagripanti

Chorus master

Pere Lluís Biosca

Others

Cor Madrigal

Marko Mimica

Maria Kataeva

Angelina

Carol Garcia

La Cenerentola -  (Cinderella)

Barcelona

Spain

La Cenerentola Rossini

Public

Private

Cinderella

Approved

La cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo, is the outcome of a commission given to Rossini by the Teatro Valle in Rome. Papal censorship banned the planned work as immoral and the hasty solution was to set Charles Perrault’s world-famous fable, Cinderella, to music. 

Rossini and Ferret replaced its traditional attributes and eliminated the magical and fabulous aspects of the original version by Perrault and Grimm: 

The cruel stepmother becomes a tyrannical stepfather, the grotesque Don Magnifico, unable to overcome the wounds from his past; the role of the de facto fairy is played by Alidoro, the prince’s tutor Don Ramiro, who, in disguise, detects the goodness of Angelina, the Cinderella humiliated by the ungraceful stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe; the prince has swapped his clothes for those of his squire Dandini; Angelina immediately falls in love; Don Magnifico and his daughters are ridiculed by Dandini and the prince; the happy ending includes everyone’s absolution. 

Written for the Roman Carnival in 1871, in only 24 days, the young Rossini, with 19 operas behind him (including Il barbiere di Siviglia), wrote a score full of energy with its famous “crescendos” that shake up the dramatic tension. 

The most innovative aspects of La Cenerentola and the success it soon achieved – it premiered in Barcelona in 1818, a year after its premiere – emerge from the violent contrast between the main character’s personality, the sentimentality of the plot and the characters populating it from Rosini’s buffo world. From Angelina’s melancholy opening song: “Una volta c’era un re”, we hear a serious opera heroine with extraordinary vocal virtuosity. 

A veritable storm of great music, full of humour served up by the best Rossini singers of the moment with production by Emma Dante, that is delicate, full of subtle nuances, but which also has a sombre and burlesque melancholy. A dramma giocoso replete with lessons for modern-day society.



Melodramma giocoso in two acts 

Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti based on Charles Perrault’s Cendrillon and libretti by Charles-Guillaume Étienne (for a Nicolas Isouard’s opera) and Francesco Fiorini (for a Stefano Pavesi’s opera) 

    World premiere: 25/1/1817 at the Teatro Valle in Rome.
    Barcelona premiere: 18/4/1818 at the Teatre de la Santa Creu.
    Last Liceu performance: 20/1/2008.
    Total number of Liceu performances: 42.

The performances are dedicated to the contralto Ewa Podleś, who passed away last January.

May 16 2024 	Thursday 	19:30 		LiceUnder35 	
May 18 2024 	Saturday 	19:00 		Turn C 	
May 19 2024 	Sunday 	17:00 		Turn T 	
May 21 2024 	Tuesday 	19:30 		Turn A 	
May 22 2024 	Wednesday 	19:30 		Turn PE 	
May 24 2024 	Friday 	19:30 		Turn E 	Buy
May 28 2024 	Tuesday 	19:30 		Turn D-H 	
May 29 2024 	Wednesday 	19:30 		Turn B AD 	
May 30 2024 	Thursday 	18:00 		Òpera entre generacions 	
May 31 2024 	Friday 	19:30 		Turn PB 	
June 1 2024 	Saturday 	18:00 		Turn F

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