Composed by Prokofiev between 1941 and 1944 and commissioned by the Kirov Theater (now Mariinsky) in St. Petersburg in the wake of the success of Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella was first staged at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on Novembre, 21, 1945, with choreography by Rostislav Sakharov. Based on a scenario by Nikolaj Volkov taken from the fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault, Prokofiev’s score combines a great wealth of almost Tchaikovsky-style lyrical cues with a subtle irony that allows us to move seamlessly from the marvels of the magical fairy tale to the humour of social satire.
After the reinterpretations by Frederick Ashton (1948), Maguy Marin (1985), Rudolf Nureyev (1986) and John Neumeier (1992), Jean-Christophe Maillot, choreographer-director of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo since 1993, also tried his hand at Prokofiev’s work in 1999, enhancing on the one hand the realistic and comic (but never grotesque) elements in the representation of the stepmother, stepsisters and the prince’s court, prisoners of the artificial cult of an empty and sophisticated beauty, on the other the profoundly human element that is the basis of the magical fairy tale as an initiatory journey from adolescence to adulthood.

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
La Fenice Orchestra
conductor Igor Dronov
choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot
sets Ernest Pignon-Ernest
costumes Jérôme Kaplan
light designer Dominique Drillot

The ballet lasts about 2 hours, including one interval.

CAST AND CREATIVES

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo

La Fée
Katrin Schrader (18,20/9)
Marianna Barabas (19,21/9)
Laura Tisserand (23/9)

Le Père
Jaat Benoot (18,20,23/9)
Matèj Urban (19,21/9)

Cendrillon
Romina Contreras (18,20/9)
Anissa Bruley (19,23/9)
Alessandra Tognoloni (21/9)

Le Prince
Jérôme TISSERAND (18,20/9)
Michele ESPOSITO (19,23/9)
Simone TRIBUNA (21/9)

La Marâtre
Mimoza KOIKE (18,20,21/9)
Lydia WELLINGTON (19,23/9)

Les Sœurs
Kathryn MCDONALD
Ashley KRAUHAUS

Les Surintendants du plaisir
Kozam RADOUANT (18,20/9)
Zino MERCKX (18,20/9)

Luca BERGAMASCHI (19,21,23/9)
Alessio SCOGNAMIGLIO (19,21,23/9)

Les quatre Amis du prince
Lukas SIMONETTO (18,20,21/9)
Daniele DELVECCHIO (18,20,21/9)
Alexandre JOAQUIM (18,20,21/9)
Cristian OLIVERI (18,20,21/9)

Koen HAVENITH (19,23/9)
Daniele DELVECCHIO (19,23/9)
Alexandre JOAQUIM (19,23/9)
Christian TWORZYANSKI (19,23/9)

Les Mannequins
PERE Alejandro MOYA VAQUERO
CENDRILLON Michaël GRÜNECKER
SOEUR Roger NEVES
SOEUR Alvaro PRIETO

Les Invités du Bal
Elena MARZANO (18,20,21/9)

Ekaterina MAMRENKO (19,23/9)

Emma KNOWLSON (18,19,20,21,23/9)

Lucía ALFARO CÓRCOLES (18,19,20,21,23/9)

Cara VERSCHRAEGEN (18,19,20,21,23/9)

Ahyun SHIN (18,19,20,21,23/9)

Isabelle MAIA (18,20,21/9)

Portia ADAMS (18,20,21/9)

Juliette KLEIN (18,20,21/9)

Christian TWORZYANSKI (18,20,21/9)