Organization

Stage director

Jill Anna Ponasik

Lighting designer

Jason Fassel

Costume designer

Brandon Kirkham

Set designer

Lisa Schlenker

Pianist

Ugo Mahieux

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Annie Rosen

The child

Soprano

Juliet Petrus

The princess

Contralto

Ola Rafalo

The mother

Kathryn Henry

Cendrillon

Tenor

Carlos Enrique Santelli

Le Prince Charmant

Nathaniel Catasca

Le Comte Barigoule

La Fee

Taylor Alexis DuPont

Armelinde

Ardeen Pierre

Maguelonne

Baritone

Zachary Crowle

Le Baron de Pictordu

Bass

Seunghee Lee

The armchair

The shepherdess Louis XV

The teapot

The Chinese teacup

The fire

A shepherdess

A shepherd

The little old man

The male cat

The female cat

The owl

The tree

The dragonfly

A nightingale

The squirrel

Conductor

Robert Mollicone

Chorus master

Benjamin Rivera

Alexandra Kassouf

solo animal

Erin Sura

David Guzman

The Cinder

Florentine Opera

Others

Milwaukee French Immersion

French

Cendrillon -  (Cinderella)

Milwaukee

United States

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts

Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall

Cendrillon Viardot

Public

Cinderella

The Child and the Spells

English

Approved

VIARDOT’S CINDERELLA
Franz Liszt named Viardot a “Genius woman composer” before she even wrote this French opera in miniature. This Cinderella is "a retelling of the Cinderella story with Gallic wit, Italianate bel canto, and a quirkiness all her own.” A godmother becomes a bumbling stepfather, and the fairy godmother appears as a guest who entertains the guests with the song. Look for 2019 Baumgartner Studio Artist alumnus Kathryn Henry stars as Cinderella.

RAVEL’S THE CHILD AND THE ENCHANTMENTS 
In Ravel’s words, “this lyric fantasy calls for melody, nothing but melody....”  The ensemble cast packs a visual punch in over-the-top costumes. Colette wrote the libretto of this ‘world come to life.’  The furniture, tea cup and fire reprimand this incorrigible child; his homework becomes an old man and a children’s chorus of numbers. These outrageous, larger-than-life characters give him a talking to. He is ultimately redeemed in helping a wounded squirrel in the garden.

Cinderella by Viardot, The Child and the Spells by Ravel, From (2022/2022), Directed by Jill Anna Ponasik,, Conductor Robert Mollicone, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, United States

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