A double-billing at the Florentine Opera features two bite-sized shows that take you on magical journeys with over-the-top costumes and sweeping vocals. Cinderella (just an hour) and The Child and the Enchantments (45 minutes) will run March 11-20
at the Wilson Theater.
“These are both tiny gems, and I think the variety that is presented in them is really luscious,” stage director Jill Anna Ponasik says. “They’re just beautiful.”
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This witty rendition of Cinderella is based on Pauline Viardot’s scaled-down take on the glass-
slippered princess first performed in 1904. Viardot was an unsung-genius composer who wrote this show to be performed as a salon opera in her own home.
Things get more fantastical after the intermission, with Maurice Ravel’s The Child and the Enchantments. The fable tells the story of a rude, tantrum-prone child who tears apart his room in rage. Suddenly, all of the objects he’s smashed and broken – the armchair, teacup, grandfather clock – come to life, ready to serve him his comeuppance.
