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Massenet : Cendrillon
Jules Massenet’s delightful Cendrillon is reinvented at the Glyndebourne Festival in a daring and sparkling production by the famous actress Fiona Shaw (Fleabag, Killing Eve…). With the superb Danielle de Niese in the title role!
Massenet : Cendrillon [DVD & Blu-ray]
Music : Jules Massenet
Libretto : Henri Cain
Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor : John Williams
Stage direction : Fiona Shaw
Revival : Fiona Dunn
Set design : Jon Bausor
Costume design : Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting design : Anna Watson
Chorus master : Aidan Oliver
“De Niese and Lindsey match each other perfectly. As Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Armenian soprano Nina Minasyan delivers dozens of high notes with elfin expertise.
Agnes Zwierko enacts Cinderella’s selfish stepmother with a fine sense of parody, though she’s a bit flat vocally, while Lionel Lhote is impeccable as Cinderella’s ineffectual father, Pandolfe.
There’s top-quality playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the pit, while conductor John Wilson makes an endless delight of the enchanting candyfloss score; and there’s enough magic and fairy dust in the show’s visuals and its overall execution to keep the children in us all happy ever after.” – THE STAGE
HD recording : Glyndebourne Festival | 06/2019
TV direction : François Roussillon
Release date : 1st June 2020
Distribution : Naxos Distribution
1 DVD
Reference : OA1303D
Barcode : 809478013037
Running time : 148 min.
Subtitles : FR / ENG / GER / JAP / KOR
Image : Color, 16/9, NTSC
Sound : PCM 2.0, DTS Digital Surround 5.1
Region code : 0
1 BLU-RAY
Reference : OABD7267D
Barcode : 809478072676
Running time : 148 min.
Subtitles : FR / ENG / GER / JAP / KOR
Image : Color, 16/9, Full HD
Sound : PCM 2.0, DTS HD Master audio 5.1
Region code : A, B, C
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