Blog Opera Cinderella in Seville

By February of the next year 's arrival of the opera Cinderella in Seville expected. If you wish to attend this Rossini opera , book your hotel in Seville near the Teatro de la Maestranza, and you'll get great savings if you contact us by phone or via email . After success with " The Barber of Seville" , Gioachino Rossini at age 25 decided to adapt the famous fairy tale Cinderella to create this magnificent opera , which makes a tale of fantasy and magic in a raw realistic view of the history, a housewife tyrannized by her two stepsisters. To the extent that Rossini forbids his librettist Jacopo Ferretti, use any supernatural element in the play. In part we think is due to the lack of existing scenic resources at that time to represent fantastic fables. There are some differences between the story by Charles Perrault and Rossini opera . Rossini changes the role of the stepmother by a stepfather, for the simple reason that rarely opera companies were composed of more than three women , plus there would not be a clear vocal differentiation. Change the glass slipper for a bracelet , since at that time forbade a singer was on stage barefoot. Cinderella at first did not have a great reception , but soon moved to be a successful play , even going to unseat the Barber of Seville as the most popular opera by Rossini. The production of the work is given by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples , under the stage direction of Paul Curran, and musical direction by Giacomo Sagripanti. The main voices are Marianna Pizzolato, Edgardo Rocha, Carlos Chausson, Borja Quiza y Mercedes Arcuri , with the Choir A. A. Teatro de la Maestranza and the Royal Symphony Orchestra Seville . Date : 14, 17, 19 and 22 February 2014. Location: Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. Time: 20:30. Price: 44-108 EUR. Points of Sale: www.teatromaestranza.com (http://www.generaltickets.com/teatromaestranza/ ) , theater box office (hours 10-14 and Monday to Saturday from 17.30 to 20.30 ) , and by phone 954 22 65 73 . TICKETS ARE NOT YET FOR SALE.