in Opera Now (Mar, 2019)
Alma Deutscher could do with editing her opera, Cinderella. But as she composed it when she was just 10 years old, she has plenty of time to tinker with it should she wish, (and in fact has already reduced it for performances on the Vienna Staatsoper’s studio stage). This performance is from Opera San José, and sung in English. The music is generous in spirit, awash with tunes, and with the graceful lilt of a Viennese operetta. It sometimes tends to schmaltz, and could I be mistaken in hearing Rossini in the overture (the Contessa di Folleville’s aria from Il Viaggio a Reims)? There is also dialogue, a bit clunky, …
Alma Deutscher: Cinderella – Vanessa Becerra
Cinderella
Overture
Act I : Note After Note
Up in the Sky
I Dreamed Someone Sent Me a Huge Bouquet
Darling little Cinderella
You Called for Me
My Son, I Love You
Your Royal Highness is Right
In my Hands
Can I Help You, Dear Lady?
Who is It?
It’s Such an Incredible Chance
Aspirin in Suspension
Down by the Brook, I Wander
Zibaldona at Least Managed to Come Up with a Melody
I Must Get Rid of Her!
Act II : I am Pretty and so Witty
When the Day Falls into Darkness
Darkness is Falling
I’ve Come to Bring Back the Shoes
High Over the Darkness there Shines a Star
Act III : The Prince is Seeking a Bride
If I’m not Mistaken
And Now, it is our Great Pleasure
My Song – how Could they Steal It?
Down by the Brook, I Wander
This can’t Be
Act IV : But Why?
I Said your Dress was too Tight
How Curious, that Girl at the Ball…
She Went out into The…
Once I Met a Girl – High over the Darkness
If Only I Could Convince – Who is it?
Now the Voices Draw so Near
Organ Voluntary
There is a Land of Ancient Tales
Bonus: Cinderella Backstage
Vanessa Becerra, Jonas Hacker, Mary Dunleavy, Claudia Chapa, Opera San Jose Orchestra, Brad DaltonAlma Deutscher
21,60€
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