Scenes from Jules Massenet’s opera Cendrillon – Cinderella
Vocal arts students from Sibelius Academy perform scenes from Jules Massenet’s Cinderella opera.
Cendrillon, better known as Cinderella, is a story that has been told for at least a thousand years, if not longer. Everyone knows the story but it still raises a lot of questions. Why was Cinderella called Cinderella? Were the step-sisters really ugly and mean? Why did the prince really want to marry an unknown girl he just met? Do fairy godmothers exist?
The vocal arts students decided to find the answers to these questions by making up their own solutions and answers. The map on this expedition is the Massenet version of Cinderella: Cendrillon.
The opera is performed in French and accompanied by piano.
Jules Massenet (1842-1912: Cendrillon – Tuhkimo – conte de fées (fairytale about fairies). Henri Cain’s libretto adapted from the Charles Perrault collection of Contes de ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose Tales, 1697) from the fairytale Cendrillon.
Performers and team
- Hanna Hasu
- Karoliina Hautala
- Martin Iivarinen
- Tuiki Järvensivu
- Saki Kono
- Sadelilja Larimo
- Rosa Rautio
- J. Martina Roos, director
- Jukka Kolimaa, lighting design
- J. Martina Roos, Mikko Elomaa and the working group, staging
Additional information: Matti Leisma, matti.leisma@uniarts.fi
Cendrillon, better known as Cinderella, is a story that has been told for at least a thousand years, if not longer. Everyone knows the story but it still raises a lot of questions. Why was Cinderella called Cinderella? Were the step-sisters really ugly and mean? Why did the prince really want to marry an unknown girl he just met? Do fairy godmothers exist?
The vocal arts students decided to find the answers to these questions by making up their own solutions and answers. The map on this expedition is the Massenet version of Cinderella: Cendrillon.
The opera is performed in French and accompanied by piano.
Jules Massenet (1842-1912: Cendrillon – Tuhkimo – conte de fées (fairytale about fairies). Henri Cain’s libretto adapted from the Charles Perrault collection of Contes de ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose Tales, 1697) from the fairytale Cendrillon.
Performers and team
- Hanna Hasu
- Karoliina Hautala
- Martin Iivarinen
- Tuiki Järvensivu
- Saki Kono
- Sadelilja Larimo
- Rosa Rautio
- J. Martina Roos, director
- Jukka Kolimaa, lighting design
- J. Martina Roos, Mikko Elomaa and the working group, staging
Additional information: Matti Leisma, matti.leisma@uniarts.fi