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Cinderella
 


Cinderella        


opera in two acts
Music: Boris Asafiev
Libretto: Olga Mukhortova after the screenplay by Evgeny Schwarz and the fairy-tale by Charles Perrault
Production: Olga Mukhortova
Set designer: Vyacheslav Okunev
Costume Engineering: Alla Marusina
Premiere of the production: December 30, 1999

Running time: 2 hours
Performance has one interval
Performed in Russian

The opera Cinderella was composed in 1906 by the professor of the Leningrad Conservatory Boris Asafiev especially for children. He wanted the young audience to start their acquaintance with the serious genre of opera with the popular fairytale by Charles Perrault. The story teaches the children that the honest and kind people always do well, good will always triumph, and the crystal shoe will fit the right person.
Based on the story by the French writer and the screen play by the Russian storyteller Evgeny Schwarz, stage director Olga Mukhortova created a bright and festive performance, which is sure to be popular with the little ones.



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