#cinderella opera

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you are my charming prince.

and if I could choose, I would choose you. Oh, how I wish I did not have to lose you the very moment that we met...

[donnabellas]

Cinderella (La Cenerentola) San Diego Opera Artist Night

The San Diego held an Artist Night Live Sketch during a dress rehearsal for the Opera Cinderella (La Cenerentola) on October 19, 2016. Local artists were permitted to attend and live sketch the performers. Art by Laurel Latto.

The San Diego held an Artist Night Live Sketch during a dress rehearsal for the Opera Cinderella (La Cenerentola) on October 19, 2016. Local artists were permitted to attend and live sketch the performers. Art illustrations were initially created using pencil on paper followed by watercolor pencils. A water wash was used followed by pen for details. Art by Laurel Latto. Learn more about the San…

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

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Reblog for larger sample size

[marvelmaniac715]

My theatre dream roles:

JD - Heathers

Veronica Sawyer - Heathers

Stephanie Lauter - The Hatchetfield Series

Webby - The Hatchetfield Series

Hannah Foster - The Hatchetfield Series

The Phantom - The Phantom of the Opera

Ursula - The Little Mermaid

Belle - Beauty and the Beast

Lydia Deetz - Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice - Beetlejuice

Penelope/Lead Siren - EPIC the Musical

Circe - EPIC the Musical

Odysseus - EPIC the Musical

Sir Hop-A-Lot - Cinderella’s Castle

[memesandmusicalss]

ok this is going to be a long post becauseee

ok there will be more (I have seen so many shows) please reblog for a bigger sample size I'm genuinely curious!

edit: guYS CHECK THE REBLOGS PLEASE THERES TWO MORE POLLS (I wasn't kidding when I said I have seen a LOT of shows)

[opera-ghost]

thinking about the sunset boulevard drama again. and also phantom of the opera and also bad cinderella and also

[leslie057]

Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov in CINDERELLA (Royal Ballet 2023)

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Here I bring the finished score!

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Cendrillon (Chicago Summer Opera, 2022), Acts III & IV

she's so tired and scared but still feels she needs to be cleaning :(

this aria!! I always feel like I'm right there with her

go off Pandolfe

the audience started clapping when he chases them off

actually good opera dad

this is such a cool effect

yay forest scene!

pretty!!

pure diva magic

gay subtitles I keep watching this like "is this real life"

her locket is the heart

i can't handle this!!!!

they both fell asleep on the ground and then the fairies led the princess away during the scene change. always wondered how (story-wise) they'd get separated.

fairy godmother takes one look back...

poor Lucette

back to the ball!!

she has the locket!

princess lineup

don't give up!!

she's here!!

so lovely!!

lookit them holding hands <3

a servant drags stepmom away and Pandolfe is happy lol

together forever at last!

happily ever after <3

omg this was so cute. they managed to make it shorter without cutting any major scenes; missed some choruses and ballets, but nothing super jarring. I got both my favorite duets!

Obviously I love that it's two ladies in love and I wish I wasn't shocked about it being portrayed onstage especially this having been performed in 2022. However I will admit there is something to be said about those trouser mezzos in their pants suits. They both give me feels in different and similar and lovely ways.

overall this is so charming and magical I loved it so much. HOWEVER I cannot believe they didn't let the divas kiss. I mean. come on.

[captainshazamerica]

Will take the top ones of all 3 ones I made once this and part 2 are done, and make one of all the tops

[princesssarisa]

Non-English "Cinderella" adaptations that might have influenced Disney's 2015 live action remake

Rossini's La Cenerentola (Italian opera, 1817). In the opera, the king has died, and the prince's search for a bride is motivated by his pending coronation. (The 2010 German Märchenperlen version also makes this choice.) In the 2015 film, the king is mortally ill, and later dies after the ball. Thus the opera's Cinderella and her 2015 counterpart both ascend straight to the throne in the end. Also, the opera's "fairy godfather" Alidoro disguises himself as a beggar and rewards Cinderella for treating him kindly, just as the 2015 Fairy Godmother does. (Although the Fairy Godmother also does this in Prokofiev's famous ballet.) The opera's Prince Ramiro also has a constant male companion, his valet Dandini, much like 2015's Kit has the Captain of the Guard (although many versions of Cinderella's prince have similar companions). Last but not least, both princes disguise themselves as a servant at some point: Ramiro switches clothes with Dandini for the ball to observe the true characters of the ladies, while Kit disguises himself as a guard to secretly observe the slipper-fitting.

Three Nuts (or Three Wishes) for Cinderella (Czech/German, 1973). In both this version and the 2015 film, Cinderella steals a few moments of freedom by riding her horse into the forest, and there she meets the prince on a hunt and stops him from shooting a deer. (Although in the 1973 film she throws a snowball at him, he chases her, and they taunt each other, while in the 2015 version they share a philosophical discussion about kindness and tell each other a little about their lives.) Both of these versions also hark back to the Grimms' tale early on, with Cinderella's father figure (the manservant Vincek in 1973, her actual father in 2015) going on a journey, and Cinderella asking for the first branch that hits his nose (1973) or brushes his shoulder (2015) as a gift. (In 1973 the branch contains the three magic hazelnuts that take the place of the Fairy Godmother in this version, while in 2015 it doesn't serve the plot, but is poignantly brought to her by the messenger who breaks the news of her father's death.)

Sechs auf einen Strech ("Six at one Blow"): Aschenputtel ("Cinderella") (German, 2011). Cinderella repeats a mantra that she learned from her mother: "You must never lose courage." In the 2015 film, she has a similar mantra, also from her mother: "Have courage and be kind." She also first meets the prince while he's hunting in the woods in this version, and the end sees them about to become king and queen, though in this case the old king is still alive, he just chooses to retire.

Zolushka (Russian, 1947). Cinderella has blonde hair, which she wears in fluffy shoulder-length curls at the ball, while the prince has wavy chestnut brown hair. (These could be coincidences, though.) The Fairy Godmother first appears as a humbly dressed old woman (although not as a beggar in 1947), then reveals her true, magical and glamorous form. The prince is also portrayed with boyish vulnerability as well as with courtly charm, and he even cries in one scene. (The '47 prince in the woods when he thinks he's lost Cinderella forever, 2015's Kit at his father's deathbed.)

When I posted my review of the 2015 film, @ariel-seagull-wings noticed the parallels with the 1947 Russian version. She suggested that Kenneth Branagh might have been influenced by that version, since British viewers are more likely than Americans to see the adaptations from continental Europe. The more I think about it, the more I realize that Branagh and the 2015 screenwriter Chris Weitz might have been influenced by more than one European Cinderella.

[kperea12]

Learning the Alphabet With Musicals

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[marybeatriceofmodena]

did you ever see/hear about the absolute scandal/drama caused by AWL for the West End version of Cinderella?

Oh honey, I was on Twitter while it was happening. And you had to appreciate the fact that he didn't even show up at the West End production's final performance, and he only sent a letter where the director Laurence Connor read a letter from him where he basically blamed the cast for getting mitigated reviews and called it a "costly mistake" (nevermind that Bad Cinderella is already dated AF for its "I'm not like the other girls" mantra, which would have maybe worked in 2005 if it came out around the time Wicked did, but now? Nah), while quite a few cast members were clearly holding back tears of anger. And then the letter got booed by the public, AS IT SHOULD.

And do you know what happened in the same weekend? Patti LuPone won her third Tony for playing Joanne in Company. It was DELICIOUS.

(And it wasn't even the first time he did it that with a cast for one of his shows: the London production of Love Never Dies learned similarly to Patti LuPone and the Cinderella cast that the production would be closing and that they would be without a job, mainly because ALW had just opened the revamped production in Melbourne and the London production was not financially successful from the get-go. And they all had to shut their mouths because a few cast members were going to be in the 25th anniversary concert for Phantom, so better not piss off the Lord lmao)