Emily Trigle as Tisbe, Alissa Goretsky as Clorinda and Isabel Leonard as Angelina/Cinderella in HGO's Cinderella. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane In the world of opera (as in any art), each composer has a ...

“Cinderella” is a barnstormer of a title — enough to make a dent in the age of the average operagoer — but there is no fairy godmother, glass slipper, pumpkin, nor midnight rush for home in Rossini’s ...

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2013 file photo Margarita Gritskova in the role of Tisbe, Tara Erraught as Angelina, Alessandro Corbelli as Don Magnifico and Valentina Nafornita as Clorinde, from left, ...

In Rossini’s Cinderella, the prince (with the short, somewhat stocky stature of a tenor) is most likely not the man that girls dream about. The mice (or in this case, large rats) are not cute and ...

Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (aka “Cinderella”) contains some of the wittiest music ever written. There’s humor in the age-old plot and in the words and wordplay themselves, but that humor is rather ...

Human connections are at the heart of Rossini’s “Cinderella” (“La Cenerentola”). It is a comic opera unlike the fairy tale some may recall or read to children and grandchildren. Rossini’s “Cinderella” ...

Who says that Cinderella needs a pair of glass slippers? In 1817, when Gioachino Rossini penned an opera drawn from the fairy tale, the Italian composer did not include the heroine’s famous footwear.

She's a fairytale heroine who has had many different names, including Cendrillon, Cenerentola, Ashenputtel — and Cinderella. Whatever she's called, almost everyone knows her story. She's the innocent ...

In the opera's final scene, Cinderella (mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich) is left to decide the fate of her abusive family. She forgives them, then sings the spectacular aria 'Non piu mesta' — 'No longer ...

VIENNAVIENNA — There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the 1950s. But Gioachino Rossini’s take ...