With its combination of enchanting love story and broad burlesque comedy Cendrillon is one of
the great operatic fairy tales -- a Cinderella that looks back to Charles Perrault's original
story in all its richness and ambiguity. Massenet's sensuous Belle Époque fairy tale is gilded
with lavish orchestral textures and glittering vocal writing drawing on everything from
Baroque dances to Wagner-inspired chromaticism to bring its story to colourful life conjuring
a world of infinite musical and emotional variety.
