Artist

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Tenor

Matteo Macchioni

Don Ramiro

Stage director

Steven Anthony Whiting

Conductor

Thomas Bagwell

Steven Moore

Stefan Herheim

Set designer

Daniel Unger

Costume designer

Esther Bialas

Lighting designer

Phönix

Pedro Chamizo

Video designer

Torge Møller

Momme Hinrichs

Mezzo-soprano

Josy Santos

Angelina

Baritone

Tomi Punkeri

Dandini

Bass

Miklós Sebestyén

Don Magnifico

Soprano

Clara Cecilie Thomsen

Clorinda

Eldrid Gorset

Kari Dahl Nielsen

Tisbe

Tae Jeong Hwang

Alidoro

Royal Danish Opera

Orchestra

Det Kongelige Kapel

Others

Det Kongelige Operakor

Italian

Aske Pot

Copenhagen

Denmark

Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House)

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Aske Pot: La Cenerentola Rossini

Public

Cinderella

Danish

Approved

Norwegian reviewers lauded this production of the fabled story as “The most spectacular staging (of La Cenerentola) ever.” A fairytale opera that combines masterly song and rollicking comedy.
 

Clorinda and Tisbe are maliciously mean towards their stepsister Angelina (Cinderella), who dreams of meeting her one and only, all while covered in ash and confined to her chores in the family kitchen. Charles Perrault’s fairytale collection Mother Goose Tales (1697) was the starting point for 24-year-old Rossini’s libretto. Indeed, these fantastical stories have throughout the years inspired other celebrated composers, including Ravel.

Despite its 200 years, La Cenerentola the opera is as fresh and captivating as in the age of Rossini. Norwegian Stefan Herheim and his talented artistic team have created a vibrant, festive show, and a visionary video design takes Cinderella and her Prince to new dimensions in this playful rendition of Rossini’s glorious bel canto opera.

Indeed, a breakneck performance as swift and speedy as the composer himself, who wrote the opera in just 24 days. Brazilian mezzo-soprano Josy Santos will appear in the role of Cinderella, and Italian tenor Matteo Macchioni, who embodied the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte a few seasons ago, will perform Don Ramiro, Prince of Salerno.

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