Rossini: La Cenerentola (2018)

• 80%
• 2018
• Fantasy
• Musik
• Lawrence Brownlee
• Marianne Crebassa
• Florian Sempey

Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a tyrannical stepfather instead of a cruel stepmother, Rossini's Cinderella plays with these most conventional of fairy‑diese characters. Nonetheless Cinderella lives in a closed world devoid of tenderness and under the yoke of the tormentor whom she protects. Deep beneath her goodness smoulders a fire that her encounter with the prince will set free... Guillaume Gallienne subtly highlights the halftones of this drama, verspielt, somewhere between opera buffa and opera seria, and ranging from weblinks http melancholy to the burlesque".