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Cendrillon - Royal Oper House (2011)
Directed by Olivier Simonnet, Laurent Pelly
Music · 2h 27m
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.
Cast
Joyce DiDonato
Cendrillon / Lucette
Alice Coote
Le Prince Charmant
Ewa Podleś
Madame de la Haltière, stepmother of Cendrillon
Jean-Philippe Lafont
Pandolfe, Cendrillon’s father
Kai Rüütel
Dorothée, stepsister of Cendrillon
Crew
- Director
- Olivier Simonnet, Laurent Pelly
- Writer
- Henri Cain
- Original Music Composer
- Jules Massenet
Details
- Release date
- 2011-07-05
- Runtime
- 2h 27m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Virgin Records, Royal Opera House