CendrillonWith it's combination of enchanting love story and broad, burlesque comedy, Cendrillon is one of the great operatic fairy tales a Cinderella that looks back to Charles Perrault's original story in all it's richness and ambiguity. Massenet's sensuous Belle Epoque fairy tale is gilded with lavish orchestral textures and glittering vocal writing, drawing on everything from baroque dances to Wagner inspired chromaticism to bring it's story to colorful

she may finally be able to unravel the mystery of her gruesome death

I was riveted by their intensity of expression

including recordings with Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five

released on Prototype Records

and Savin' My Love afire

and have been singing in different guises since 1939

Something Else and the recently remastered 50th anniversary editions of Village Green Preservation Society

Sometimes orchestral

a programme that delighted her audience

Subtitling the cantata 'dramma per musica'

to which they devote intense scrutiny within the framework of a recital series that pairs them with contemporary works specifically commissioned for the occasion

Duo Campion-Vachon - Duke Ellington: Four Handed Piano