Comedy falls flat in ENO's season opening Cinderella

Deepa Johnny (Cinderella) and Charles Rice (Dandini)

Cinderella

Simon Bailey (Don Magnifico) and the ENO Chorus

Deepa Johnny (Cinderella) and Aaron Godfrey Mayes (Don Ramiro)

Deepa Johnny (Cinderella)

Von Mark Valencia, 29 September 2025

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“Deepa Johnny... is blessed with the kind of honeyed timbre you could melt inside”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 27 September 2025

Rossini, La Cenerentola (Aschenputtel)

English National Opera

Yi-Chen Lin, Musikalische Leitung

Julia Burbach, Regie

Herbert Murauer, Bühnenbild

Sussie Juhlin-Wallén, Kostüme

Malcolm Rippeth, Licht

English National Opera Orchestra

English National Opera Chorus

Deepa Johnny, Angelina (Cinderella)

Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Don Ramiro

Charles Rice, Dandini, valet to Ramiro

Simon Bailey, Don Magnifico

David Ireland, Alidoro

Isabelle Peters, Clorinda

Grace Durham, Tisbe

Cameron McMillan, Choreographie

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*****

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***11

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*****

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*****

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****1

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****1

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

The comedy falls flat in English National Opera's season opening Cinderella