Against a clean grey photography backdrop, a man wearing short-sleeved mustard yellow shorts, a brown check tie, brown check trousers and chunky brown shoes holds an old-fashioned rectangular brown leather suitcase with metal corner proctors with both hands. The man's head is cut off from the image, and the empty suitcase hangs open, revealing a cream link in the body and a red checked lining on the lid.

Cendrillon

Overview

Pauline Viardot created her version of Cinderella, a comic opera in three tableaux for seven solo singers, chorus and piano, to her own libretto, and premiered it in April 1904 in her Paris salon when she was 84 years old.

Viardot, one of the most celebrated singers of her generation, made her debut as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello in London in 1839 at 17 years. During her stellar operatic career, she inspired composers like Saint-Saëns and Gounod to write and dedicate roles to her. She studied piano with Franz Liszt and played piano duets with Clara Schumann.

As a singer and composer, Pauline Viardot was at the centre of artistic life in Paris in the second half of the nineteenth century. She wrote over 100 songs, including transcriptions of Chopin’s 12 mazurkas, four operettas and her opera Cendrillon. Taking the lead from Viardot’s salon setting, our production of Cendrillon brings a group of performers together in the same space to tell the well-known story with some modern twists and unexpected turns! 

Cast

Conductor: David Adams

Director: Hélène Montague

Set, Costume and Make-Up: Design for Stage and Screen at IADT

Lighting Design: John Comiskey

Movement Director: Diane Richardson

Creative Team

Conductor: David Adams

Director: Hélène Montague

Set, Costume and Make-Up: Design for Stage and Screen at IADT

Lighting Design: John Comiskey

Movement Director: Diane Richardson

Technical Team

Conductor: David Adams

Director: Hélène Montague

Set, Costume and Make-Up: Design for Stage and Screen at IADT

Lighting Design: John Comiskey

Movement Director: Diane Richardson

Orchestra

RIAM Opera Orchestra 

RIAM Opera Orchestra 

RIAM Opera Orchestra 

 

Director's Note

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Composer's Note

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Against a clean grey photography backdrop, a man wearing short-sleeved mustard yellow shorts, a brown check tie, brown check trousers and chunky brown shoes holds an old-fashioned rectangular brown leather suitcase with metal corner proctors with both hands. The man's head is cut off from the image, and the empty suitcase hangs open, revealing a cream link in the body and a red checked lining on the lid.
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