Massenet: Cendrillon
Glyndebourne, 8th June 2019
Picnic hamper packed? Champagne cooled? Ready for a spot of psychoanalysis, darling? There are enough references to dreams in Fiona Shaw’s Glyndebourne production of Cendrillon to give Sigmund Freud sleepless nights. Massenet’s charmer premiered at the Opéra Comique in 1899 – the same year as The Interpretation of Dreams was published – and Shaw lays Cinders on the couch to reveal a hefty dollop of wish fulfilment behind in an urban update to the fairy tale.
Danielle de Niese (Cendrillon) and Kate Lindsey (Prince Charming)
© Robert Hubert Smith
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