Cinderella at Komische Oper Berlin

Dates: (6/12/2016 - 7/10/2016 )

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Komische Oper Berlin

Behrenstraße 55-57
Berlin,Berlin 10117

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Tickets: €12.00 - €92.00

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From Rossini's La Cenerentola and Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella through to the Disney musical of the same name – the fairytale of Cinderella provides some of the most popular material for musical theatre stages around the world. Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, written at the turn of the 20th century, struck a nerve in an era of radical social and technical change, in which there was an almost boundless yearning for brief escapes from a reality which was increasingly coming to overwhelm people.

Massenet emphasises the magical and dreamlike qualities of the story, wholly focusing in his version on the happiness of the two lovers and the threats that happiness faces. The airy orchestral sounds so typical of late-Romantic French opera make the prince and Cinderella appear as beings from a world which seems to represent a bare caricature of now questionable norms and values, while also artfully referencing and exaggeratedly parodying Baroque musical forms.

This work is only rarely found on schedules in Germany – it has never yet been performed in Berlin! High time, then, for a new production – because what could be better than occasionally dreaming one's way into the fairytale love story of a prince and a girl of humble origins, especially when made to sound so beguiling by Massenet?

Authors

Cast and Creative team for Cinderella at Komische Oper Berlin

Crew
Musical direction
Henrik Nánási
Staging
Damiano Michieletto
Stage design
Paolo Fantin
Costumes
Klaus Bruns
Dramaturgy
Simon Berger
Chorus
David Cavelius
Lighting
Diego Leetz
Cast
Cinderella
Nadja Mchantaf
Madame de la Haltière
Agnes Zwierko
Prince Charming
Karolina Gumos
The Fairy
Mari Eriksmoen
Noémie
Mirka Wagner
Dorothée
Zoe Kissa
Pandolfe
Werner van Mechelen
The King
Carsten Sabrowski
The Dean of the Faculty
Christoph Späth
The Master of Ceremonies
Nikola Ivanov
The Prime Minister
Philipp Meierhöfer

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