Cendrillon

Cendrillon - Mariame Clément

• Conductor

  Carlo Rizzi

• Music

  Jules Massenet
  (1842-1912)

• Libretto

  Henri Cain

• Director

  Mariame Clément

• Set design and Costume design

  Julia Hansen

• Lighting design

  Ulrik Gad

• Video

  Etienne Guiol

• Choreography

  Mathieu Guilhaumon

Jules Massenet no doubt sought to enchant his era when he set Charles Perrault’s fairytale to music. With Cendrillon, the composer offers us one of his most attractive works, quite unlike other operatic adaptations of the tale. The mischievous Lucette and the women around her give the work a tone whose myriad nuances confirm the words of Claude Debussy who saw Massenet as “the musical historian of the female soul”. By gracing the fairy with an unreal coloratura timbre and having the role of the prince sung by a soprano, the composer offers us a vocal festival carried along by a richly varied orchestration alternating between Mozartian finesse, baroque-style citations and grand romantic overtones. To mark the addition of Cendrillon to the Paris Opera’s repertoire, Mariame Clément plays on the myth’s fantasy side, reflecting on the characters’ inner selves whilst setting them free from their tight suits and court shoes.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Cendrillon will be broadcast on France Musique on May 7 at 8pm in the program "Samedi à l'Opéra", presented by Judith Chaine.

Cendrillon

Cendrillon - Mariame Clément

• Cendrillon

  Tara Erraught

• Madame de la Haltière

  Daniela Barcellona

• Le prince charmant

  Anna Stephany

• La fée

  Kathleen Kim

• Noémie

  Charlotte Bonnet

• Dorothée

  Marion Lebègue

• Pandolfe

  Lionel Lhote

• Le roi

  Philippe Rouillon

• Le Doyen de la faculté

  Cyrille Lovighi

• Le Surintendant des plaisirs

  Olivier Ayault

• Le Premier Ministre

  Vadim Artamonov

• Six Esprits

  Corinne Talibart

• So-Hee Lee

• Stéphanie Loris

• Anne-Sophie Ducret

• Blandine Folio Peres