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"La Cenerentola" (Cinderella) with Elina Garanca broadcast LIVE by Met May 9; Slaves to love
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La Cenerentola, Rossini's coloratura Cinderella. If he truly loves her he will find her. And she will be broadcast live from the Met Satuday morning to theaters across the country. It's at Century Theaters and Fathom Events.com. More links are at the end of this article.
Elina Garanca sings the title role. Here's a synopsis.
La Cenerentola’s father Don Magnifico tells the prince Don Ramiro though his third daughter is dead. Magnifico is hoping to marry off one of his other two daughters Clarinda or Thisbe for wealth. Since the prince is looking for a good hearted and humble bride not a gold digger, the prince sends his tutor in disguise as a beggar to observe the candidates' true character. In turn the prince disguises his valet as himself as part of the plan. He finds the two evil sisters are outraged at the thought of marrying a servant. Depicted, Elina Garanca as Angelina and Brownlee as the prince, Don Ramiro but first here's Elina singing the gypsy song from Carmen.
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If the shoe fits . . .
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Here's an audio link from the Met's production in 2000.
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For a preview of this Cinderella story I put on the DVD of the Glyndebourne production this morning. Basically feel as if I'm playing hookie in the Fillmore, stretched out with the two French bulldogs in the comfort of the bedroom; I dog sit in lower Pacific Heights and the owner Kelly is on a business trip. A view of the Victorians out my window after a night of mystic fog and being lulled to sleep with the fog horn. I had called Carter from a eucalyptus grove in the Presidio the night before. Could Carter hear the fog horn over my cell phone? He did a nice imitation of a fog horn for what I think might be a tenor. That was a good sign, as then he said he wanted to drive down from Sacramento to see La Cenerentola with me.
Maybe some day I'll go to Glyndebourne with him and his brother Kent Krizman the airline pilot. That’s the 700 year old house in East Sussex, England, that puts on summer operas for the city folk from London. What could be more enchanting a setting for this fairy tale?
So I imagined what it would feel like to be in the English countryside reliving the fairy tale, putting myself back in time. Here are the gardens and the pasture with sheep grazing along with the wedding scene from La Cenerentola.
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GFO Ruxandra Donose and Maxim Mironov
Glyndebourne Photos: Mike Hoban, Courtesy of Glyndebourne Festival Opera
The Glyndebourne set (from 1983?) helps, the opera opens on it’s little wood floored set with a backdrop of a cottage. Complete with sagging roof it looks like some fastasy cottage in Carmel except for the clothes hanging on the line. The opening graphics and the set come to life right out of the pages of a children's book.
La Cenerentola, Angelina, crouches at the hearth stoking the fire with a billows. One sister enters wearing a chin strap and both have strapped on the framework for hips to fill out ballgowns, what does one even call these contraptions? They are getting ready for something as one sister straps the other into her corset jolting in time to the music. The costumes though are fantastic, the men in dandy big bloomers with bows on their shoes and long curly hair. They sing to the camera.
The harpsicord moves the story along with humor.
Next we see the two long snouted sisters on a set with a raked bed, pantomiming their rocking of imaginary babies in their arms.
Back to San Francisco though. San Francisco Opera has an alum singing in the production broadcast live from the Met. Jeremy Galyon, who is enjoying his debut season at the Met and started with Natalie Dessay in the last Met live broadcast, La Sonnambula. Jeremy's hometown welcomes him home to the Moravian church in Pennsylvania this year and sent pictures from his Easter performance. This bass baritone is easy to pick out as the tallest on stage.
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Photo: Helen Foraste, who says:
Our Central Moravian Musical Director, and organist extraordinaire, is Rebecca Kleintop Owens, who continues to produce wonderful concerts and special organ services throughout the year, as she has done for many years before coming back to Bethlehem.
If you want to see Jeremy after the live broadcast of La Cenerentola, he will return to San Francisco in June.
Wednesday, June 10 at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, June 11 at 2:00 p.m. Friday, June 12 at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 13 at 8:00 p.m. SCHUBERT/BERG FESTIVAL Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Gil Shaham, violin Laura Aikin, soprano Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano Bruce Sledge, tenor 1 Nicholas Phan, tenor 2 Jeremy Galyon, bass-baritone San Francisco Symphony San Francisco Symphony Chorus Ragnar Bohlin, director
Davies Symphony Hall PROGRAM: Berg/Violin Concerto Schubert/Mass No. 6 in E-flat major, D950
TICKETS: $35-$130; available through SFS Ticket Services at (415) 864-6000 or online at sfsymphony.org.
As for La Cenerentola,
Saturday, May 9, 2009 (12:30 pm ET)
Running time 3 hours / one intermission
US ENCORE: Wednesday, May 20
CANADIAN ENCORE: Saturday, May 23
The Met posts a schedule of all the LIVE broadcasts starting in the fall.
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The Met broadcasting live.
Inside the four thousand seat theater . . .
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Photos: Courtesy of the Met
Info: The Met Live, FathomEvents.com, www.kultur.com, www.Glyndebourne.com, Century Theater, www.SFOpera.com
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