'La Cenerentola' by Rossini (Natick, August 8 and 10)

Opera del West presents
La Cenerentola (Cinderella) by Giachino Rossini
Rebecca Grimes, director - Eve Budnick, musical director
The Center for Arts in Natick
Aug. 8 (8pm) and 10 (2pm)
Friday night's performance will be the full-length opera, while Sunday afternoon features a shorter family-friendly version with narration. Both sung in Italian with projected supertitles in English

* synopis in Italian, in English
* libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, based on Cendrillon ou La petite pantoufle by Perrault
* excerpts from the La Scala/Abbado/Ponnelle version (1981):
- Act I: 'Miei rampolli femminini', 'Ecco Dandini', 'Signor, una parola', finale
- Act II: 'Sì, ritrovarla io giuro', 'Questo e' un nodo avvilippato'
* comparisons:
- 'Non più mesta': Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Tuva Semmingsen
[Notice You Yube has other arias and excerpts]