Cendrillon - Royal Oper House

(2011)

★ 8.7 IMDb · 10 votes

Genres: Music

Year: 2011

Runtime: 147 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Laurent Pelly, Olivier Simonnet

Cast: Joyce DiDonato, Eglise Gutiérrez, Alice Coote, Ewa Podleś, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Madeleine Pierard, Kai Rüütel, Jeremy White, Harry Nicoll, Dawid Kimberg

Plot

Massenet composed his opera about Cenerentola nearly 80 years after Rossini did his. And if you are looking for the outburst of the non-stop hilarity and the musical jokes of Rossini, you won't find it here. Also, while the Cendrillon was highly successful and popular in its time, it does not reach up to the artistic and musical levels offered by Massenet's other operas, like Manon, or Thais or Werther. Nevertheless, this is a delightful opera and it is well presented by The Royal Opera. Laurent Pelly created a ingenious setting with movable walls which are covered [in French] with the story of Cinderella, and which open and close book-like.