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Opera San Antonio's 'Cinderella,' a comedic delight and 'a beautiful story of forgiveness'

By Nathan Cone

Opera San Antonio opens their season this week with a bright and cheerful production of Gioachino Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” a story that would be more familiar to English-speaking audiences as “Cinderella.”

Unlike the Disney movie, there are no singing mice, no glass slipper, and no Fairy Godmother, but the basic plot is the same, about a young woman forced to work as a chamber maid in her own home by her wretched stepsisters.

Ultimately, the opera is “a beautiful story of forgiveness,” according to Francesco Milioto, Music Director of Opera San Antonio.

Rossini’s “Cinderella” also breaks the stereotype of unhappy endings in opera