COMPANY: Opus Arte
CATEGORY: DVD
COMPOSER: Jules Massenet

Product: 809478013037

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Fiona Shaw’s production dives deep into the psychological aspects of Massenet’s glittering Cinderella story

“... conductor John Wilson makes an endless delight of the enchanting candyfloss score.”

(The Stage ★★★★)

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.