Event listing: La Cenerentola | Wiener Staatsoper | Event is in the past

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Wiener StaatsoperOpernring 2 / Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Vienna, 1010, Austria

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Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti

Performers

Vienna State Opera
Jesús López-Cobos	Conductor
Sven-Eric Bechtolf	Director
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera			2013 Feb 14
Dmitry Korchak	Tenor	Don Ramiro
Vito Priante	Baritone	Dandini, valet to Ramiro
Alessandro Corbelli	Bass	Don Magnifico
Tara Erraught	Mezzo-soprano	Angelina (Cinderella)
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo	Bass-baritone	Alidoro
Valentina Naforniţă	Soprano	Clorinda	2013 Feb 14
Margarita Gritskova	Mezzo-soprano	Tisbe	2013 Feb 14

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Nostalgia for the Italian Fifties: The Vienna Staatsoper's La Cenerentola

Snapdragon, 18th February

What has made Rossini and his librettist Jacopo Ferretti’s take on Cinderella survive on the opera stage for almost 200 years now is not only the universal archetype of the downtrodden girl who is redeemed by Prince Charming, nor its enchanting music: the absence of fairy-tale symbols like the pumpkin carriage and the glass shoe (barefoot ladies would have been too outrageous a sight on an Italian

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