Glyndebourne - Jules Massenet: Cendrillon

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 Epoque 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.