Set Designer
Set Designer
마스네의 매혹적인 오페라가 베르트랑 드 비이의 지휘와 희극오페라 연출의 대가 로랑 펠리의 연출로 메트에서 초연된다. 로랑 펠리는 메트에서 이미 도니체티의 '연대의 딸'과 마스네의 '마농' 연출로 찬사를 받았다. 프랑스어 원제는 ‘샹드리용’이며 여주인공 신데렐라의 이름도 이 오페라 속에서는 ‘샹드리용’으로 불린다. 조이스 디도나토가 이 작품의 타이틀 롤을 맡아 자신의 메트 배역을 또 하나 첨가했다. 이 작품은 로열오페라하우스, 바르셀로나 리세우 대극장, 브뤼셀 왕립극장, 릴 오페라와 메트 오페라가 공동으로 제작했으며, 산타페 오페라에서 첫 공연이 이루어졌다.
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‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score of The Golden Cockerel highlights the delicious ambiguity of this work. Principally inspired by Washington Irving and Pushkin, Rimsky-Korsakov called on the talents of Vladimir Belsky, an author of other libretti of a fairy-tale, legendary nature and an expert on Russian folk literature. The composer, a genius at orchestration, has given us sparkling music, with oriental touches, that creates fully rounded characters. This is the perfect occasion for Alain Altinoglu to direct his first opera in his new role as Music Director of La Monnaie. After the success of his Don Quichotte and Cendrillon, Laurent Pelly returns to La Monnaie to stage this exuberant political satire, an adventure in unrestrained rhythm. More than a century has passed since its first performance, yet the opera has lost none of its boisterous sarcasm.
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Massenet composed his opera about Cenerentola nearly 80 years after Rossini did his. And if you are looking for the outburst of the non-stop hilarity and the musical jokes of Rossini, you won't find it here. Also, while the Cendrillon was highly successful and popular in its time, it does not reach up to the artistic and musical levels offered by Massenet's other operas, like Manon, or Thais or Werther. Nevertheless, this is a delightful opera and it is well presented by The Royal Opera. Laurent Pelly created a ingenious setting with movable walls which are covered [in French] with the story of Cinderella, and which open and close book-like.
