Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY

 
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY
Glyndebourne Opera / Danielle de Niese, Kate Lindsey, Agnes Zwierko, Nina Minasyan / John Wilson (cond)

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Release Date: Friday 19 June 2020

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

With its combination of enchanting love story and broad, burlesque comedy, Cendrillon is one of the great operatic fairy tales - a Cinderella that looks back to Charles Perrault's original story in all its richness and ambiguity. Massenet's sensuous Belle Epoque fairy tale is gilded with lavish orchestral textures and glittering vocal writing, drawing on everything from baroque dances to Wagner-inspired chromaticism to bring its story to colourful life, conjuring a world of infinite musical and emotional variety. Fiona Shaw's original Tour production makes its Festival debut here, re-directed by Fiona Dunn and conducted by John Wilson, with a cast led by Glyndebourne favourites Danielle de Niese as Cendrillon and Kate Lindsey as her Prince.

"... conductor John Wilson makes an endless delight of the enchanting candyfloss score." (The Stage ★★★★)

"Wilson's conducting holds the score's Gallic wit, dream-fantasy and sensuous romance in balance, conjuring delicious sounds from the London Philharmonic...Minasyan's delicate, pinpoint accuracy makes the Fairy Godmother's coloratura sound easy, which it isn't…[De Niese's] charisma compels attention…[Lindsey's] full, dark mezzo and intense acting are pretty much ideal..in spite of its quirks, this sumptuous Cendrillon is a pleasure to hear-and often to see-in the good, old Glyndebourne tradition.."
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Cendrillon (Cinderella) - Festival 2019 trailer