La Cenerentola | Opera review

Glyndebourne, LewesRossini's version of the Cinderella story is unusual in dispensing with magic altogether. Cenerentola's fortunes are altered by the arrival of a beggar to whom she offers kindness. He turns out to be not just the Prince's tutor, but a philosopher imbued with Enlightenment ideals, and it is the central character's unswerving goodness that leads to an ending where – as the work's alternative title suggests – Virtue Triumphs.Peter Hall's production, carefully revived for Glyn...

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