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La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
By Gioacchino
Rossini
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Norma
By Vincenzo
Bellini
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La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Gioacchino Rossini
Resources
Recommended Recordings
Compiled by Denise Gallo
The Compact Opera Collection, featuring Agnes Baltsa, Francisco Araiza, Simone Alaimo, Ruggero Raimondi; Neville Marriner conducting.
London Records, featuring Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Alessandro Corbelli, Enzo Dara, Michele Pertusi; Riccardo Chailly conducting.
Naxos, featuring Joyce DiDonato, Patrizia Cigna, Martina Borst, José Manuel Zapata, Paolo Bordogna, Bruno Praticò, Luca Pisaroni; Alberto Zedda conducting the SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern.
Deutsche Grammophon, featuring Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, Renato Capecchi, Paolo Montarsolo; Claudio Abbado conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
Recommended Video
Deutsche Grammophon, a 1981 La Scala production with Frederica von Stade, Margherita Guglielmi, Laura Zannini, Francisco Araiza, Claudio Desderi, Paolo Montarsolo; Claudio Abbado conducting.
Decca, a 1995 Houston Grand Opera production featuring Cecilia Bartoli, Enzo Dara, Raúl Giménez, Alessandro Corbelli and Michele Pertusi; Bruno Campanella conducting.
Kultur, a 1983 production at Glyndebourne, with Marta Taddei, Kathleen Kuhlmann, Laura Zannini, Laurence Dale, Alberto Rinaldi, Claudio Desderi; Donato Renzetti conducting the London Philharmonic.
Naxos, another Glyndebourne production, this time from 2005, featuring Ruxandra Donose, Maxim Mironov, Luciano di Pasquale, Simone Alberghini; Vladimir Jurowski conducting.
TDK/Naxos, 2006 production at Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice, featuring Carla di Censo, Sonia Ganassi, Paola Gardina, Antonino Siragusa, Marco Vinco, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Simon Orfila; Renato Palumbo conducting.
Recommended Reading
Richard Osborne's biography, Rossini, part of the Master Musicians Series, has just been revised (Oxford University Press (2007).
For an overview of the 19th-century composers, see The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini by Philip Gossett (W.W. Norton & Company, 1983).
To discover current studies about Rossini, check the Web site of the Center for Italian Opera Studies (CIAO) at The University of Chicago. Links will allow you to view a list of the music of Rossini that has been published in critical editions.
Here is the link to CIAO's page on the edition of La Cenerentola: humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ciao/Rossini operas/1cenerentola.html.
For an inventory of Rossini's Operas, Librettists and Premieres, visit: humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ciao/Introductory/Roperas.html.
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