04 - 07 February 2017
20:00
Composed by Rossini in only
twenty-four days, La Cenerentola is, despite the failure of its creation in
Rome in 1817, a wonderful masterpiece in which vis comica never masks the
emotion which animates it. The libretto takes liberties with the tale of
Perrault, from which it takes a fair bit of its inspiration: the stepmother is
replaced by a father-in-law even more cruel than he is stupid, the fairy
becomes a philosopher, the prince is given a valet (the exchange of roles between
the master and the servant is one of the comedic drivers of the work), not to
mention, of course, the famous vair slippers that become a pair of bracelets.
While the characters are split into bad (or ridiculous) and good sides, the
music also oscillates between the buffo and the romantic elegy, making Angelina
– Cinderella – one of Rossini’s most sensitive and endearing heroines.
It is in
this role that the young Cecilia Bartoli was noticed for her quasi-debut at New
York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1996. Having become diva assoluta, she once again
becomes Cinderella for this concert by Rossini in twenty four days only, The
cenerentola is, in spite of the failure of its creation in Rome in 1817, a
delicious masterpiece where the screw comica never masks the emotion which
appears.
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