Bologna, Rossini's Cenerentola closes Autumn 2021 at the Teatro Comunale

It finally goes on stage from 16 to 23 December to the Municipal Theater of Bologna the wait Cinderella of Rossini, which will close the autumn program of the Bologna Opera with four performances.

Scheduled in the 2020 billboard and postponed due to the pandemic, the production designed by Emma Dante for theOpera of Rome in 2016, proposed for the first time in Bologna.

On the podium the young German director Nikolas Nägele, driving the'Orchestra and Chorus of the Municipal Theater of Bologna, this last one prepared by Gea Baratti Ansini. The protagonists of the vocal cast are Chiara Amarù in the title role, Antonino Siragusa like Don Ramiro, Nicola Alaimo, which alternates with Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore, in the role of Dandini, Vincenzo Taormina in those of Don Magnifico, Aloisa Aisenberg is Sonia Ciani like Thisbe and Clorinda, e Gabriele Sagona like Alidoro. The scenes are from Carmine Maringola, the costumes of Vanessa Sannino, the lights of Cristian Zucaro and the choreographic movements of Manuela Lo Sicco, the direction is taken from Federico Gagliardi.

Cinderella, or goodness in triumph, is a playful two-act drama of Gioachino Rossini on booklet by Jacopo Ferretti. The subject is taken from the famous fairy tale by Charles Perrault, Cendrillon (1697), but Ferretti also based himself on the opera librettos of Charles Guillaume Etienne (Cendrillon, 1810) and Francesco Fiorini (Agatina, or the rewarded virtue, 1814). Rossini composed the music in a very short time, just over three weeks, and the first performance took place on January 25, 1817 at the Teatro Valle in Rome. After an initially cold reception, La Cenerentola soon became one of Rossini's most overwhelming successes.

“Rossini's Cenerentola - as stated in the presentation notes of the Teatro Comunale - is configured as a work of disguise and transformation, both in history and in musical motifs. The most miraculous transformation of all is, of course, the one to which the protagonist, Angelina, is subject: the naive girl who, when the curtain rises, in a world of comic opera characters gradually becomes a mature and regal woman.