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.”
It’s time to pick your Milwaukee favorites for the year!
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.
