Золушка by Rossini, сбт 01 июня 2024, С (2024/2024), Режиссер Emma Dante,, Дирижёр Giacomo Sagripanti, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Барселона, Испания

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