Cendrillon

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The Paris Opera Ballet presents Rudolf Nureyev's three‐act ballet, Cendrillon, the story of Cinderella set to music by Sergei Prokofiev.

When Rudolf Nureyev created Cinderella at the Paris Opera in 1986, he chose to transpose Charles Perrault’s fairy tale into the realms of 1930s Hollywood. His Cinderella dreams of being a star of the big screen and finds herself propelled into the limelight thanks to the miraculous intervention of a movie producer. The sumptuous sets by Petrika Ionesco lead her into a succession of movie sets from Metropolis to King Kong and offer veiled references to Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx. All the cruelty, fantasy and magic of the fairy tale are to be found here: a wicked stepmother, the diabolical step‐sisters and a happy ending for the young girl who charms the young premier and escapes her condition by gaining stardom.

At once glamorous, funny and romantic, Cinderella is both a tribute to the cinema and an anthem to innocence, conveyed by one of Sergei Prokofiev’s most beautiful scores.

Rudolf Nureyev, Adaptation, Choreography and stage director (Opéra national de Paris, 1986)
Petrika Ionesco, Sets
Hanae Mori, Costumes
Guido Levi, Lighting
Les Etoiles, Les Premiers Danseurs and Corps de Ballet
Paris Opera Orchestra
Fayçal Karoui Conductor