Dramma giocoso in two acts
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
Performed in Italian with German and English surtitles
Premiere
6. November 2021,
No further performances in the current season.
Premiere cast
- Conductor Alessandro De Marchi
- Staging Damiano Michieletto
- Mitarbeit Regie Eleonora Gravagnola
- Set Design Paolo Fantin
- Costume Design Agostino Cavalca
- Mitarbeit Kostüm Chiara Amaltea Ciarelli
- Lighting Design Alessandro Carletti
- Videodesign rocafilm
- Choir Jonathan Becker
- Choreography Chiara Vecchi
- Dramaturgy Juliane Schunke
- Angelina (Cenerentola) Marina Viotti, Elena Maximova, Emily D’Angelo
- Don Magnifico Peter Kálmán, Maurizio Muraro
- Alidoro Alexandros Stavrakakis, Chao Deng, Pietro Spagnoli
- Don Ramiro Levy Sekgapane, Maxim Mironov
- Dandini Edward Nelson, Andrei Zhilikhovsky
- Tisbe Justyna Ołów, Anna Kudriashova-Stepanets
- Clorinda Alice Rossi
Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Co-production with the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris
Project Partner: Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Sachsen, Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, Sparkassen-Versicherung Sachsen, LBBW
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La Cenerentola
In 1817 and already at the height of his fame, Gioachino Rossini composed an opera based on the famous Cinderella story to help launch Rome’s carnival season: Angelina, called Cenerentola, is refused permission by her stepfather Don Magnifico to join him and his daughters Tisbe and Clorinda at the Prince’s ball. But Alidoro, the Prince’s mysterious tutor, manages to secret her in, where she once again encounters the Prince’s valet, the young man who had been so clearly attracted to her in Don Magnifico’s house, and she to him. As a pledge of her affection, she gives him a bracelet – unaware that the servant is none other than the Prince himself! Rossini’s ›Semiseria‹ is bursting with wit, chattering parlando, dizzying coloratura and the purest buffo art, with here and there elements of tragedy. It is not magic or the benevolence of some high-ranking personage that finally brings about the happy end, but rather the strength and virtue of a pure heart. Italian stage director Damiano Michieletto will make his Semperoper debut with this production of La Cenerentola.
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Making-of
La Cenerentola – Making-of (2)
When Rossini came on the scene with his fantastic music, the people were mad about him and just couldn’t get enough of him, says a delighted Alessandro De Marchi, who has taken over the musical direction of our new production of La Cenerentola. The conductor will lead the performances from 6 November on the podium of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Making-of
La Cenerentola – Making-of (1)
The internationally renowed director Damiano Michieletto makes his debut in Dresden with La Cenerentola. He finds a fresh, emotional, and entertaining storytelling without taking away his main character’s yearning and enchantment, and stages Rossini’s dramma giocoso as a powerful, socially critical musical theater of the 20th century.