👉 OperaVision – La Cenerentola
Festival: Rossini in Wildbad
Opera: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Music: Gioachino Rossini
Text: Jacopo Ferretti
Director, sets, lights: Jochen Schönleber
Conductor: José Miguel Pérez-Sierra
Costumes: Claudia Möbius
Orchestra: Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
Chorus: Kraków Philharmonic Chorus
Cast: Polina Anikina (Angelina), Patrick Kabongo (Prince Ramiro), Dogukan Özkan (Alidoro), Filippo Morace (Don Magnifico), Emmanuel Franco (Dandini), Ellada Koller (Clorinda), Verena Kronbichler (Tisbe)
Language: Italian, with subtitles in Italian, English, and German
Recorded on: 27 July 2025
Streamed on: 5 October 2025, 19:00 CET
Available until: 5 April 2026, 12:00 CET
Duration: approx. 3 hours
The Rossini in Wildbad festival presents a new production of La Cenerentola, Rossini’s 1817 comic masterpiece based on the Cinderella story. In this version, written by Jacopo Ferretti, the glass slipper is replaced by a bracelet, and the magic rests not on fairy-tale spells but on human kindness and resilience.
Director Jochen Schönleber places the opera in a world where social ambition and ostentation collide with sincerity and forgiveness. He notes that his approach was shaped by contemporary reflections on wealth and inequality: “the story of a disadvantaged woman who refuses to hate and a prince who refuses to play the game of the aristocracy.”
The cast is led by Polina Anikina as Angelina and Patrick Kabongo as Prince Ramiro, with José Miguel Pérez-Sierra conducting the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. Rossini’s music charts Angelina’s journey from humble servant to noble heroine, offering a score full of ensemble brilliance, lyrical intimacy, and dazzling vocal fireworks.
Available for free on OperaVision until April 2026, this performance continues the festival’s tradition of bringing rare and celebrated Rossini works to a global audience.
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