La Cenerentola

by Gioachino Rossini
Comic opera in two acts
Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
"I don't believe in the right to work; I prefer to believe that the greatest right of man is to do nothing," said Rossini. Angelina, his Cinderella, is a far cry from this - she performs slave labor in her bankrupt stepfather's family. How a prince, for whom the bank account and an army of servants work, gets her out of this precarious situation is a world-famous fairy tale from Charles Perrault to Walt Disney. Rossini tells the story of the survival power of honest feelings without the familiar miracle elements. But there is one great miracle: love at first sight. Not at the ball, but when the prince, as a servant, inspects the potential brides in advance. Surrounded by the madness of dreams of ascent and scenarios of descent, which drives Rossini's characters forward just as much as the insane energy of his music.