New York’s Metropolitan Opera presents an all-star cast in a production of La Cenerentola, Rossini’s 1817 masterpiece based on the famous Perrault fairytale. Thanks to this live broadcast, the typically Italian melodies and lively rhythms of Rossini’s opera can be enjoyed not only by nearly 4,000 music lovers seated in the auditorium, but by tens of thousands worldwide.
For the first time since she became a regular fixture at the Metropolitan, the title role is played by Grammy Award-winning Joyce DiDonato, one of the leading American sopranos of our times, who also appears in person this season at the Palace of Arts. Her partner is Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian tenor born for bel canto roles, who dazzles audiences with his exceptionally beautiful voice and a flawless singing technique that enables him to tackle even the toughest passages with fluency and ease. Unusually, Flórez had scarcely turned 31 when a stamp bearing his image was issued in his home country, while his wedding was attended by luminaries including the Peruvian president and Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning author.
Pietro Spagnoli debuts in this production as the valet Dandini, while Alessandro Corbelli appears as Cinderella’s stepfather and Luca Pisaroni as Don Ramiro’s tutor.
The performance is conducted by the Met’s Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi, who has assumed the lion’s share of the conducting duties of Music Director James Levine in recent years while the latter has been indisposed due to health issues, and who has also been named music director of the Zurich Opera for a period of five years, effective from the 2012-2013 season.

Presented by: Palace of Arts