The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they are instantly attracted to each other. When the Philosopher, Alidoro, later takes Cenerentola (dressed in magnificent clothing) to the palace, Dandini (still posing as the prince) tries to talk of love to her, but Cenerentola rejects him, saying that she is in love with his 'valet'. Ramiro, who has overheard this comment, is overjoyed, and immediately proposes to her, but Cenerentola says that he must first seek her out and then, if he still felt the same way, she would marry him. She gives him one of a matching pairs of bracelets, telling him to look for its companion on her right arm (she then leaves the palace). Ramiro ends the masquerade, and he and Dandini resume their true identities. The Prince then sets out on his quest - little realising that destiny, in the form of a violent thunderstorm, is about to take a hand in the affair.

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...
An anthology of four abbreviated operas: "William Tell" by Rossini, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Moza...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have al...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of th...

Vivian, Roe, JJ, Ines and a mysterious French man through a 20 year musical memory of New York City....

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular produ...

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...

Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on l...