Description
When the mysterious girl fled the ball, she sang a haunting melody. In Alma Deutscher’s retelling of Cinderella, the heroine is a composer, the Prince a poet, and their souls meet through a tune she sets to his words.🎬 Clip you’re watching: The Prince arrives with one question on his lips: “Who can finish the melody I can’t forget?” OSJ 2022 production, conducted by the 17-year-old composer.
Watch the whole of Cinderella here:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/JrMoI-2Y9bM
Part 2: https://youtu.be/4ssaj7-I4_A
More about Alma’s Cinderella: https://www.almadeutscher.com/cinderella
Presented by The Packard Humanities Institute and Opera San José. STAGE DIRECTOR: Brad Dalton, CONDUCTOR: Alma Deutscher, CINDERELLA: Natalia Santaliz, PRINCE: Joey Hammond-Leppek, THE KING: Ben Brady, GRISELDA: Stacey Tappan, ZIBALDONA: Julia Dawson, STEPMOTHER: Rena Harms, THE FAIRY: Megan E. Grey, MINISTER: Joshua Hughes, FLOWER GIRL: Helen Deutscher, Opera San José Orchestra, Chorus, and Dancers. PRODUCED BY David W. Packard. Recorded in November 2022 at the California Theatre in San José, CA. Video Director: Bernhard Fleischer.