La Cenerentola

by Gioachino Rossini Comic opera in two acts Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti in Italian with German surtitles

"I don't believe in the right to work; I prefer to believe that the greatest right of man is to do nothing," said Rossini. Angelina, his Cinderella, is a far cry from this - she performs slave labor in her bankrupt stepfather's family. How a prince, for whom the bank account and an army of servants work, gets her out of this precarious situation is a world-famous fairy tale from Charles Perrault to Disney. Rossini tells the story of the power of honest feelings to survive without the familiar miraculous elements, but there is one great miracle: love at first sight. Not at the ball, but when the prince, as a servant, inspects the potential brides in advance. Surrounding this is the madness of exalted dreams of ascent and terrible scenarios of descent, which drives Rossini's characters forward just as much as the insane energy of his music. The young mezzo-soprano Itzeli del Rosario, who has been a member of the Stuttgart ensemble since this season, makes her debut in the title role of Cinderella.