September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
What happens when a fairy tale has no magic? Does the heroine still find love and live happily ever after?
Gioachino Rossini and librettist Jacopo Ferretti attempt to answer these questions in La Cenerentola (Cinderella), a two-act operatic dramma giocoso, a comic opera that also contains serious themes. Although based on Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale Cendrillon, Rossini’s Italian comic drama relies on reason rather than magic. An interesting commentary on societal and class issues for audiences even today, the opera transforms an otherwise sweet story ...
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