Rossini - La Cenerentola / Золушка (1996)

An astounding performance!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤......

A truly fantastic cast!

It's truly a delight to listen Cecilia sing. There's only one male counterpart who can sing like her and it's Franco Fagioli -the countertenor. It's an art to do the throat trills.

Great cast!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤....

I came here thanks to the film Closer 😂

Awesome

Un'edizione eccezionale del capolavoro rossiniano! Sublime!

esecuzione eccezionale di questa meravigliosa opera. Con un cast eccezionale sublimato dall' eccellenza della Bartoli.

Corbelli bravissimo!

Брависсимо! 👏👏👏все великолепны! А Чечилия- чудо!!!

Чечиллия - лучшая Золушка👏👏👏

Cecilia is just so lively here.

Thank you for this version of Cenerentola, I hadn't seen it before. Personally I prefer the version with Ann Murray but as with so nany things it's a question of personal taste.

I like this one!😍❤️⚘️👏👍

A perfect production. Alma Deutscher has added some bel canto to her German language version of Cinderella. Will be interesting to compare the results. Would not surprise me if she matches Rossini.

I love it💕

Indimenticabile. La mia prima "Cenerentola". Grazie a Mamma RAI la rappresentazione allo Houston Grand Opera di un allestimento che é già storia. Sapete che la so tutta a memoria ? L'opera più delicata e simpatica della storia della lirica. L'opera che consiglio personalmente a chi vuole cominciare a "drogarsi" con questa sostanza meravigliosa. Evviva Rossini !!!

Corbelli is the only one tjat can do the throath coloratura without disturbing me. The 90% of the today singers that try to emulate him sounds like old grannyes..

Mlpks c'è

Rossini’s masterpiece

corbelli.....quelle perfection ))))

Grande produzione! Sono tutti grandi belcantisti da Dara a Cecilia! Bravissimi!

Con la payasa de la Bartoli no dan ganas de verla
Tanta gesticulación para cantar se ve desagradable la mujer

La migliore versione senza ogni dubbio è solo quella della Scala del 2005. Insuperabile ..

Enzo Dara is the real treasure. So natural and mischievous, singing easy and clearly

Angelina (Cinderella): Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano
Don Magnifico, Baron of Montefiascone and Cenerentola's stepfather: Enzo Dara , bass
Don Ramiro, Prince of Salerno: Raúl Giménez, tenor
Dandini, valet to the Prince: Alessandro Corbelli, baritone
Alidoro, philosopher and the Prince's former tutor: Michele Pertusi, bass
Clorinda, Don Magnifico's elder daughter: Laura Knoop, soprano
Tisbe, Don Magnifico's younger daughter: Jill Grove, mezzo soprano

Act 1
Angelina, known to her stepfather and stepsisters as "Cenerentola", is forced to serve as the maid in her own home. She sings of a king who married a common girl ("Una volta c’era un rè"). A beggar arrives; her stepsisters, Clorinda and Tisbe, want to send him away, but Cenerentola gives him bread and coffee. Courtiers follow, announcing that Prince Ramiro will come to visit while he searches for the most beautiful girl in the land to wed. Cenerentola's stepfather, Don Magnifico, hopes to use this as an opportunity to save his own failing fortune. When the room is empty, Ramiro enters alone, disguised as a valet. The "beggar" - in fact, his tutor, Alidoro - has informed him of a goodhearted young woman spotted here. Ramiro intends to find her incognito. Cenerentola returns, and she and Ramiro are attracted to each other (duet: "Un soave non-so che"), but when he asks who she is, she's overwhelmed and flees. Finally, the "prince" arrives – the real valet, Dandini, who has taken his master's place - and Magnifico, Clorinda, and Tisbe fall over themselves to flatter him. He invites the family to a ball that evening, where he plans to find his bride; Cenerentola asks to join them, but Magnifico refuses (quintet: "Signor, una parola"). This callousness isn't lost on Ramiro. Alidoro, still in his rags, returns to inquire after a third daughter in the house; Magnifico claims she has died. Left alone with Cenerentola, Alidoro promises to take her to the ball himself, and that God will reward her kindness ("Là del ciel nell’arcano profondo"). The prince and his valet have retired to Ramiro's country house in some confusion, as neither of Magnifico's daughters resembled the worthy bride Alidoro had described. When Clorinda and Tisbe arrive, Dandini gives them a little test: he offers his "valet" to whichever sister the "prince" does not marry. The ladies are outraged at the idea of marrying a servant. Alidoro then arrives with a beautiful, unknown lady who strangely resembles Cenerentola. Unable to make sense of the situation, they all sit down to supper, feeling as if they are in a dream.

Act 2
Magnifico frets over the competition his daughters now face from the strange lady ("Sia qualunque delle figlie"), but Cenerentola isn't interested in the "prince," saying she's fallen in love with his servant. An overjoyed Ramiro steps forward; however, Cenerentola tells him that she's going home and doesn't want him to follow her. If he really cares for her, she says, he will find her, giving him one of a matching pair of bracelets. The prince determines to do exactly that ("Sì, ritrovarla io giuro"). Meanwhile, Magnifico confronts the disguised Dandini, insisting that he choose one of his daughters to marry. Dandini tries to stall, but is forced to admit that he's actually the valet and not the prince at all (duet: "Un segreto d’importanza"). A furious Magnifico and his daughters return home, where they order Cenerentola, back in rags, to serve them. A storm is thundering outside. Alidoro sabotages Ramiro's carriage so that it breaks down in front of Magnifico's manor, forcing the prince to take refuge within. Cenerentola and Ramiro recognize each other's bracelets; the others comment on the situation (sextet: "Siete voi?"). When Ramiro threatens Cenerentola's recalcitrant family, she asks him to forgive them. Ramiro and Cenerentola are married, and celebrate their wedding at the palace. Magnifico tries to win the favor of the new princess, but she asks only to be acknowledged, at last, as his daughter. She reflects on the misfortune to which she was born and the sudden reversal of her fate, then forgives her family for all her past unhappiness, adding that her days of sitting sadly by the fire are over ("Nacqui all'affanno... Non più mesta"). Everyone present acknowledges that she truly is worthy of the throne.

Compare the singing of CB in this production with the wonderful singing by von Stade. Von stade is a real singer

バルトリの歌声は本当に素晴らしい。彼女の歌声はまるで楽器のよう。自由自在に、声が踊っている。そしてしぐさや表情もとても可愛らしい美人さん(*^^*)

Bartoli ruining the whole thing..

Corbelli is really funny

Here for Laura

Bellissima!!!

Fabulous.

Alan Rickman as Don Ramiro!

I admire Bartoli in other role or persormances but in this Algelina is out of character.

Una de las operas de Rossini mas bellas que haya hecho! Aunque en realidad todas me gustan 😍. Gracias gracias por compartirla. Estoy feliz!

Magnífica Cenicienta!

Absolutamente GENIAL...
¡¡BELLÍSIMA!! Gracias por compartirla. 🍀 💕

I have this DVD and I love Cecilia Bartoli but I really hate the grimaces she makes when she sings.

And who are those fabulous Clorinda and Tisbetta?

grande Pertusi!