Pauline Viardot:
A Legacy of Music

With a new English translation and optional orchestrations, Scena Music Publishing offers a new vocal score of Pauline Viardot’s witty and charming 1904 salon opera, Cendrillon (Cinderella), which has been edited, re-engraved and contains the English translation.

This one hour opera is suitable for any sized college or university opera program or amateur opera company. It can be minimally staged in English or French using piano, with limited sets, costumes and props; or can accommodate larger productions up to a full theatrical staging with chamber orchestra. It is perfect for educational outreach performances or as a substitute for an undergraduate college scenes program.

Translated by Rachel M. Harris; orchestrated by Charles Effler.

Instrumentation (each version has a full score )

Version A:

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in B-flat (doubling Bass Clarinet in B-flat), Bassoon, Horn in F, Percussion (two players), Harp, Strings (minimum of three Violin I, Violin II, and Viola; two Celli, one Doublebass)

Version B:

as above, but string parts edited for one-player-per-part and a piano part (doubles the strings – without piano the strings are overwhelmed by the winds in louder passages)

Version C: 

String Quartet plus, Doublebass, Piano, Tam-tam (Viardot writes for “gong” in her original score, which is played for each “miracle” (pumpkin turns into coach, etc.). Twelve strikes of a single chime (D4) to denote midnight at the end of the ballroom scene (end of Act II).