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Deutsche Oper Am Rhein 2017-18 Review – La Cenerentola: Winning Ensemble Cast in Classic Ponnelle Production Remains Pleasing to Audiences

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The story of “Cinderella” is one told in many iterations and for good reasons. It’s a feel-good story that is certainly uplifting during trying times. The well-traveled Jean-Pierre Ponnelle version of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” made a stop this past Sunday at Deutsche Oper Am Rhein in Dusseldorf and it’s not often you witness as many ovations in the opera house {…}
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Rossini Opera Festival 2026 Review: L’occasione fa il ladro

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(Photo: Rossini Opera Festival) Written in just fifteen days in 1812 for Venice’s Teatro San Moisè, this one-act burletta per musica belongs to the extraordinary period of the composer’s youth when, at just 20 years old, Rossini seemed capable of turning even the most seemingly minor plot into a theatrical mechanism of breathtaking precision, sustained by music of the highest {…}
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Rossini Opera Festival 2026: La scala di seta

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This title occupies a singular place within Gioachino Rossini’s early output. Composed in 1812 for Venice’s Teatro San Moisè, it belongs to the small group of one-act farces that the young composer, just 20 years old, wrote during one of the most frenetic periods of his career. It follows the tradition of the eighteenth-century opera buffa: a romantic entanglement built {…}
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Deutsche Oper am Rhein 2025-26 Review: Le nozze di Figaro

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(Photo: Jochen Quast) Deutsche Oper am Rhein prides itself on having the largest permanent ensemble of soloists in the world. This is no exaggeration: the German opera house is renowned for maintaining one of the most substantial fixed ensembles internationally, with approximately 47 singers under permanent contract –excluding the chorus and its collaborations with two orchestras – thus covering the {…}
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Teatro Regio di Torino 2025-26 Review: La Cenerentola

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(Photo: Mattia Gaido) Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (1817) is quite different from the familiar children’s tale most of us grew up with. Librettist Jacopo Ferretti (1784-1852) opted for a more realistic Italian view of the fairy tale. His Cinderella is bereft of fairy godmother, magic carriage or glass slippers. Some attribute this rational approach to the Enlightenment, while others believe it {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: La Cenerentola

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(Credits: Brescia e Amisano) Just days before the premiere of his new opera, Gioachino Rossini – true to his habits and to the conventions of his time – chose to speed up the process. For the Sinfonia (overture), he reused one he had written a year earlier for “La Gazzetta,” while for the protagonist’s final rondò, he adapted a fragment {…}
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Q & A: Alasdair Kent on Mozart, Bel Canto & His Beginnings

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(Credit: John Matthew Myers) Over the few years, Alasdair Kent has garnered international attention singing at the Bayerische Staatsoper, and the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, among others. He has become a leading Bel Canto tenor of choice performing some of the most virtuosic tenor roles in the repertoire from Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. A winner of the First {…}
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Bayerische Staatsoper Announces Another Conductor Change for ‘La Cenerentola’

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced a new conductor change for its production of “La Cenerentola.” The company said that for performances on Oct. 6, 9, and 11, 2022, Antonino Fogliani will conduct instead of Stefano Montanari. Fogliani is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 2017 and Music Director of the Festival Rossini in Wildbad since 2012. {…}

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