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La Cenerentola

Gioacchino Rossini

Palais Garnier

from 10 June to 13 July 2017

3h10 with 1 interval

La Cenerentola

Palais Garnier - from 10 June to 13 July 2017

Synopsis

"The world is one large theatre And we are all actors; We can change characters In an instant."  

Alidoro, Acte I, scène 7


“Before the carnival is over, all Rome will love my Cinderella…” Thus spoke Rossini in 1817, in the aftermath of the disastrous opening night, firmly convinced that his pumpkin would be transformed into a sumptuous carriage. The future was to prove him right. However, in moving from Perrault’s tale to the opera, the humble servant who dreams of going to the ball has lost all her magical attributes: here there is no fairy godmother to transform mice into horses, rats into coachmen and lizards into footmen with a wave of her wand. And it is not a fur slipper but a bracelet that the beauty leaves behind for her prince, quite deliberately, challenging him to find her again. The Enlightenment had lit its fires throughout Europe and La Cenerentola focused on the burning issues of the day, confronting social divisions to reveal the crinoline beneath the rags. Guillaume Gallienne, member of the Comédie-Française, stages his first opera.

Duration : 3h10 with 1 interval

Language : Italian

Artists

Opera in two acts (1817)


Creative team

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

French and English surtitles

Media

  • En Quête de La Cenerentola

    En Quête de La Cenerentola

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  • Podcast La Cenerentola

    Podcast La Cenerentola

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  • The volcano's daughter

    The volcano's daughter

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  • On the ashes of innocence

    On the ashes of innocence

    Read the article

  • An eruption in the making

    An eruption in the making

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  • Guillaume Gallienne directs La Cenerentola

    Guillaume Gallienne directs La Cenerentola

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En Quête de La Cenerentola

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En Quête #04

En Quête de La Cenerentola

By David Christoffel

From June 10 to July 13, "La Cenerentola » is playing at the Palais Garnier in a production by Guillaume Gallienne in which a volcano occupies a central place. David Christoffel, poet and radio creator, sets off in the footsteps of Cinderella with vulcanologist Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff.

Podcast La Cenerentola

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"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique

07 min

Podcast La Cenerentola

By Judith Chaine

  • In partnership with France Musique

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"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" offers original incursions into the season thanks to broadcasts produced by France Musique and the Paris Opera. For each opera or ballet production, Judith Chaine (opera) and Stéphane Grant (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres.    

© Eléna Bauer / Onp

The volcano's daughter

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La Cenerentola by Guillaume Gallienne

3:26 min

The volcano's daughter

By Octave

Backstage with La Cenerentola in company with the stage director.

© Isabelle Debreuille

On the ashes of innocence

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Visit of the sets of La Cenerentola seen by Guillaume Gallienne

02 min

On the ashes of innocence

By Anne-Claire Cieutat, Jo Fishley , BANDE A PART

Guillaume Gallienne directs Rossini's Cenerentola, exalting goodness, and opens the doors of the set. Visit in images and sounds. 

A big house of fire rises. It is dressed in a Pompeian fresco red, a beautiful rosso pompeiano shaded by browns and ochres that could well be the shades of the yellow of Naples from the lava of Vesuvius. Eric Ruf's set - the administrator of the Comédie Française has become a scenographer - erects this majestic house, a Neapolitan palace with a flamboyant mineral façade on a rugged bed of black lava and ashes.

La Cenerentola belongs to a consumed world, this volcanic Cinderella of Guillaume Gallienne celebrates the end of innocence, in a universe that has collapsed. This lost innocence is at the wedding with goodness. Cinderella is a young girl who loves and forgives, virtues that are missing in our time and that the director from the French department exalts.

This Cinderella of Italy, this Angelina of Rossini, hangs on our days its ideal benevolence. Light as the airy harp that plays her music, she has escaped in Guillaume Gallienne's Italian comedy, with its despicable and touching monsters, its boasts between frivolity and gravity, its joyful and cheerful creatures.

Here is a ball with a joyful story, a love story full of fantasy, which makes you want to believe in fairy tales and fairies. So much the worse if there is no good fairy, no slipper, no pumpkin, but a philosopher and a bracelet, we still find the evil sisters, the very young naive girl who goes from abused childhood to triumphant happiness, the decomposed family with its neuroses. It is no longer a tale, but its essential moral vibrates, goodness prevails over cruelty.








© Brigitte Enguerand

An eruption in the making

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La Cenerentola by Eric Ruf

2:52 min

An eruption in the making

By Octave

Backstage with La Cenerentola in company with the scenographer.

© Elena Bauer / OnP

Guillaume Gallienne directs La Cenerentola

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In rehearsal

02 min

Guillaume Gallienne directs La Cenerentola

By Octave

When Stéphane Lissner asked Guillaume Gallienne to direct Rossini’s La Cenerentola, his initial reaction was to ask why he had chosen him. The director of the Paris Opera replied: “Because it’s about the family, it’s funny and it’s cruel.”

Actor, director and member of the Academie Française, Guillaume Gallienne directs his first opera with this production of La Cenerentola. The photographer Éléna Bauer has captured the atmosphere of the production as it takes shape. Commentary by Guillaume Gallienne.   


Guillaume Gallienne et Marie Lambert
Guillaume Gallienne et Marie Lambert © Elena Bauer / OnP

“Shortly after accepting the commission from the Paris Opera, Marie Lambert, my assistant, and I discussed Italian cinema. We evoked Riso Amaro, Anna Magnani, Ettore Scola and Brutti, sporchi e cattivi, Respiro and Valeria Golino …”

Guillaume Gallienne et Teresa Iervolino (Angelina)
Guillaume Gallienne et Teresa Iervolino (Angelina) © Elena Bauer / OnP

“Beaten and deprived of her name, Angelina can literally only smoulder in silence. In her stark misery, however, there is a fire threatening to blaze up. When I went to hear Teresa Iervolino in the role of Angelina in Palermo, she pleased me enormously: I said to myself that she could be that volcano.”

Teresa Iervolino (Angelina), Guillaume Gallienne, Alessio Arduini (Dandini)
Teresa Iervolino (Angelina), Guillaume Gallienne, Alessio Arduini (Dandini) © Elena Bauer / OnP

“How can the Prince and Angelina recognise each other? How can it be obvious that this is love at first sight? Angelina is emotionally handicapped because she has been starved of affection. And what of him? Where does his fragility come from? And what is his relationship with Dandini? Why does Alidoro call Angelina his daughter?"

Guillaume Gallienne et Alessio Arduini (Dandini)
Guillaume Gallienne et Alessio Arduini (Dandini) © Elena Bauer / OnP

“I’ve seen numerous versions of La Cenerentola. Very opera buffa productions. They didn’t really interest me. I had the impression that there was something else in the music. When I direct the singers, I tend to streamline enormously. When a performer says: ‘ I have the impression of not acting’, I say to him, ‘That means you’ve struck the right tone."

  • La Cenerentola - Gioachino Rossini

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In both our venues, discounted tickets are sold at the box offices from 30 minutes before the show:

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Palais Garnier

Place de l'Opéra

75009 Paris

Public transport

Underground Opéra (lignes 3, 7 et 8), Chaussée d’Antin (lignes 7 et 9), Madeleine (lignes 8 et 14), Auber (RER A)

Bus 20, 21, 27, 29, 32, 45, 52, 66, 68, 95, N15, N16

Calculate my route
Car park

Q-Park Edouard VII16 16, rue Bruno Coquatrix 75009 Paris

Book your parking spot

At the Palais Garnier, buy €10 tickets for seats in the 6th category (very limited visibility, two tickets maximum per person) on the day of the performance at the Box offices.

In both our venues, discounted tickets are sold at the box offices from 30 minutes before the show:

  • €35 tickets for under-28s, unemployed people (with documentary proof less than 3 months old) and senior citizens over 65 with non-taxable income (proof of tax exemption for the current year required)
  • €70 tickets for senior citizens over 65

Get samples of the operas and ballets at the Paris Opera gift shops: programmes, books, recordings, and also stationery, jewellery, shirts, homeware and honey from Paris Opera.

Palais Garnier
  • Every day from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and until performances end
  • Get in from Place de l’Opéra or from within the theatre’s public areas
  • For more information: +33 1 53 43 03 97

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