Description
Gioacchino Rossini - La Cenerentola (2 DVD) / Chorus: Coro del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova / Chorus Master: Ciro Visco / Conductor: Renato Palumbo / Director: Paul Curran / Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica Del Teatro Carlo Felice Di Genova / 2007 DVD
Total Playtime: 169 Minutes
Region 0 NTSC
Made in Germany
UPC 824121002237
- Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 3.84 Ounces
- Director : Paul Curran
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, DTS Surround Sound, Dolby, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 2 hours and 49 minutes
- Release date : May 29, 2007
- Actors : Sonia Ganassi, Antonino Siragusa, Marco Vinco, Simon Orfila, Carla di Censo
- Subtitles: : German, English, Italian, Spanish, French
- Studio : TDK DVD
- ASIN : B000OQDS04
- Number of discs : 2
This production of Gioachino Rossini's opera La Cenerentola features Sonia Ganassi in the title role as well as performances from Antonio Siragusa, Alfonso Antoniozzi, and Carla Di Censo with the orchestra operating under the guidance of conductor Renato Palumbo.
Director Paul Curran sets this 2006 production of Rossini's comic opera in 1912, to highlight the social conflicts and class differences of the time. Conductor Renato Palumbo makes his operatic debut in Genoa, while Sonia Ganassi leads a cast also featuring Antonino Siragusa, Marco Vinco and Alfonso Antoniozzi.
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo ("Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant") is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera Cendrillon with music by Nicolas Isouard (first performed Paris, 1810) and by Francesco Fiorini for Agatina, o la virtù premiata with music by Stefano Pavesi (first performed Milan, 1814). All these operas are versions of the fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault. Rossini's opera was first performed in Rome's Teatro Valle on 25 January 1817.
Rossini composed La Cenerentola when he was 25 years old, following the success of The Barber of Seville the year before. La Cenerentola, which he completed in a period of three weeks, is considered to have some of his finest writing for solo voice and ensembles. Rossini saved some time by reusing an overture from La gazzetta and part of an aria from The Barber of Seville and by enlisting a collaborator, Luca Agolini, who wrote the secco recitatives and three numbers (Alidoro's "Vasto teatro è il mondo", Clorinda's "Sventurata! Mi credea" and the chorus "Ah, della bella incognita"). The facsimile edition of the autograph has a different aria for Alidoro, "Fa' silenzio, odo un rumore"; this seems to have been added by an anonymous hand for an 1818 production. For an 1820 revival in Rome, Rossini wrote a bravura replacement, "Là, del ciel nell'arcano profondo".