Opera North

Forget fairy godmothers, pumpkins and glass slippers, Rossini’s version of Cinderella (La Cenerentola) is an unabashedly romantic comedy but without any of the usual trappings associated with this much-loved fairy tale.

Rossini was celebrated in his day for serious as well as comic operas and, in Cinderella, he combines his genius for both. Bringing Rossini’s comic characters to life in this lively production are Quirijn de Lang (Fred Graham, Kiss Me, Kate; Count Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro, both 2015) who sings the Prince’s servant Dandini, and Henry Waddington (Bartolo, The Marriage of Figaro, 2015) as Cinderella’s stepfather, Don Magnifico.