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Cinderella

Rossini’s Semiseria is bursting with wit, chattering parlando, dizzying coloratura and the purest buffo art, with here and there elements of tragedy. It is not magic or the benevolence of some high-ranking personage that finally brings about the happy end, but rather the strength and virtue of a pure heart. Italian stage director Damiano Michieletto is coming back after his fantastic Giulio Cesare in Egitto presented in may 2022.

A stirring performance

Bariton Matthias Goerne, offers an overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia. Conductor Andris Poga leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, in its original one act 1869 version. Olivier Py’s vivid staging poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself.

Vivaldi's Olympics-themed opera, part of the Cultural Paris 2024 Olympiad

The plot turns on a cheating scandal at the Olympic Games and on a tangled love situation involving two young men Megacle and Licida and two girls Aristea and Argene, none of whom can marry the one he/she really loves. But several twist and turns later they are reunited, and the opera concludes in a happy end.

Vivaldi’s musically rich and charming opera is performed by a perfect cast including the prodigious countertenor, Jakub Józef Orliński - Licida - with his unusual scenic ease and his passion for breakdance, staged by the creative Emmanuel Daumas and conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi one of the best connoisseurs of baroque vitality.