VIENNAVIENNA — There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the 1950s. But Gioachino Rossini’s take ...

Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (aka “Cinderella”) contains some of the wittiest music ever written. There’s humor in the age-old plot and in the words and wordplay themselves, but that humor is rather ...

“Cinderella” is a barnstormer of a title — enough to make a dent in the age of the average operagoer — but there is no fairy godmother, glass slipper, pumpkin, nor midnight rush for home in Rossini’s ...

Human connections are at the heart of Rossini’s “Cinderella” (“La Cenerentola”). It is a comic opera unlike the fairy tale some may recall or read to children and grandchildren. Rossini’s “Cinderella” ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Rossini’s timeless romantic comedy Cinderella, transporting audiences to a world of enchantment from January 21 to February 10, 2024. Considered one of his finest ...

In Rossini’s Cinderella, the prince (with the short, somewhat stocky stature of a tenor) is most likely not the man that girls dream about. The mice (or in this case, large rats) are not cute and ...

Who says that Cinderella needs a pair of glass slippers? In 1817, when Gioachino Rossini penned an opera drawn from the fairy tale, the Italian composer did not include the heroine’s famous footwear.

In the opera's final scene, Cinderella (mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich) is left to decide the fate of her abusive family. She forgives them, then sings the spectacular aria 'Non piu mesta' — 'No longer ...

She's a fairytale heroine who has had many different names, including Cendrillon, Cenerentola, Ashenputtel — and Cinderella. Whatever she's called, almost everyone knows her story. She's the innocent ...

EASTON — Joyce DiDonato sings her first Met performance of the title character in Rossini’s Cinderella story, "La Cenerentola," in the final live transmission from the Met of this season’s "Live in HD ...

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2013 file photo Margarita Gritskova in the role of Tisbe, Tara Erraught as Angelina, Alessandro Corbelli as Don Magnifico and Valentina Nafornita as Clorinde, from left, ...