La Cenerentola

Opera Buffa di Gioacchino Rossini

semi stage version at Baxter Concert Hall

Director's note

“Shake and quiver, little tree,
Throw gold and silver down to me ”

Cenerentola is Rossini’s best opera and the libretto is just perfect: Genious moments when time stops, descriptions of thoughts in confused brains, typical ensembles that get faster and faster…

Rossini’s figures are rather petty bourgeois: they are hungry, greedy, jealous, hilarious and quite often behind all events. But forever full of good hope and conviction that in the very end they’ll succeed! 

Credits

Direction Claudia Blersch
Music Direction Jochen Rieder
Mit
La Cenerentola: Ané Pretorius
Don Magnifico: Bongani Kubeka
Don Ramiro: Lunga Hallam
Dandini: Martin Kwize
The ugly sisters: Ipeleng Kgatle/Jacubi de Villiers/Moloko Letsoalo

And Opera Artistic Director George Stevens as Alidoro 

Production of South African College of Music, Baxter Concert Hall, 2017

Kritik

Excellence all over! Especially the remarkable singers that make you forget to be in a concert hall.
German director Claudia Blersch has brought every single character to his best. Included a charming spoken part by Alidoro George Stevens that put just more smile on everybodies face. Playful, joyful, hilarious:
A must see in Baxter Concert Hall.

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