The Metropolitan Opera – Laurent Pelly’s production of Massenet’s Cendrillon/Cinderella – Isabel Leonard, Emily D’Angelo, Jessica Pratt, Stephanie Blythe, Laurent Naouri; conducted by Emmanuel Villaume

This Cinderella, a ninety-minute English-language version of Laurent Pelly’s fanciful 2018 production of Massenet’s Cendrillon, is the newest installment in the Met’s series of abridged, family-friendly opera adaptations. The storybook staging – with Pelly’s zany, colorful costumes and Barbara de Limburg’s one-size-fits-all sets featuring the French text of Charles Perrault’s 1697 classic fairytale scrawled everywhere possible – holds …

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