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La Cenerentola

7.4 151 mins Comedy   Music   1981
Teatro alla Scala   Deutsche Grammophon  
Director(s): Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they are instantly attracted to each other. When the Philosopher, Alidoro, later takes Cenerentola (dressed in magnificent clothing) to the palace, Dandini (still posing as the prince) tries to talk of love to her, but Cenerentola rejects him, saying that she is in love with his 'valet'. Ramiro, who has overheard this comment, is overjoyed, and immediately proposes to her, but Cenerentola says that he must first seek her out and then, if he still felt the same way, she would marry him. She gives him one of a matching pairs of bracelets, telling him to look for its companion on her right arm (she then leaves the palace). Ramiro ends the masquerade, and he and Dandini resume their true identities. The Prince then sets out on his quest - little realising that destiny, in the form of a violent thunderstorm, is about to take a hand in the affair.

Casts of La Cenerentola

Frederica von Stade

as Angelina / Cenerentola

Margherita Guglielmi

as Clorinda

Laura Zannini

as Tisbe

Paolo Montarsolo

as Don Magnifico

Francisco Araiza

as Don Ramiro

Claudio Desderi

as Dandini

Paul Plishka

as Alidoro

Claudio Abbado

as Self - Conductor

Gioacchino Rossini

as Self - Composer

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

as Self - Orchestra

Coro del Teatro alla Scala

as Self - Chorus

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