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Summer season 2017
Opera

La Cenerentola

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“Once upon a time there was a king”: is the song of Cinderella, who dreams of escaping her two stupid and annoying stepsisters, a song which becomes reality when she marries the Prince Don Ramiro. Loosely based on the fable by Charles Perrault, the stepmother is substituted by the hilarious Don Magnifico, Superintendent of Glasses and President of the Grape Harvest, Cinderella is not helped by a fairy godmother, neither does she lose a shoe. It is the cunning Alidoro who organises a party during which the Prince and Cinderella will meet, and a faked accident allows the latter to be recognised. The happy ending is guaranteed, with a touch of malice, by the newly-wed bride who, addressing her stepfather and stepsisters, sings “their pardon will be my revenge”.

 

Cinderella, or rather “The Triumph of the Good”
A playful melodrama in two acts
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fable by Charles Perrault
First performed: 25 January 1817 at the Teatro Valle, Rome

New staging

Artists

Conductor
Alessandro D’Agostini

Director
Manu Lalli

Scenes
Roberta Lazzeri

Costumes
Gianna Poli

Director of the Choir
Lorenzo Fratini

Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Angelina (Cenerentola)
José Maria Lo Monaco

Don Ramiro
Matteo Macchioni

Don Magnifico
Marco Filippo Romano

Dandini
Giorgio Caoduro

Alidoro
Mirco Palazzi

Clorinda
Francesca Longari

Tisbe
Ana Victoria Pitts

Fata dei libri
Alice Chiaramida
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Born in Pesaro on 29 February 1792, son of a trombone player and a singer. He began studying the harpsichord and singing at Lugo, to then enrol in 1806 for cello, piano and composition lessons at the Musical Secondary School in Bologna. He made his debut in 1810 with La cambiale di matrimonio at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice, but his first important successes came with La pietra del paragone (1812) andTancredi e L’Italiana in Algeri(1813). Employed by the impresario Domenico Barbaja as director of the Neapolitan Theatres of San Carlo and the Fondo, with the obligation of writing two operas per year, he composed Otello (1816), Mosè in Egitto (1818), Ermione (1819) and Maometto II (1820). In Rome, between 1816 and 1817, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola were staged; 1817 also saw the staging of La Gazza Ladra at the Scala in Milan. With Guillaume Tell (1829) he moved away from operatic theatre and dedicated himself to the Stabat Mater (1841) and the Petite Messe Solennelle (1863). He died in Passy, near Paris, on 13 November 1868.
Dates

Fri 30 June, ore 21:15
Tue 27 June, ore 21:15
Wed 21 June, ore 21:15
Thu 15 June, ore 21:15
Fri 9 June, ore 21:15

Running times
First part: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Interval: 30 minutes
Second part: 1 hour and 20 minutes

Total running time: 3 hours and 30 minutes
Prices
I Sector 90 €
II Sector 60 €
III Sector 40 €
IV Sector 20 €
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