cinderella, cenerentola, cendrillon

It really doesn't matter what her name is, whether in the 1950 Disney film, or the 1817 Italian opera, or the 1810 French ballet.
She is, was, and forever shall be the girl with the glass slipper.
She is usually envisaged in a flowing white dress, like this one on Jessica Ann Best singing "Non più mesta".
I had to look closely when she used the stairs, but she did not have glass on her feet.

That was the last of three tunes from the Rossini opera.
"Sventurata! Mi credea" was the first, with Angela De Venuto thrashing about in turmoil, especially when she ran out of gelato.
Oh, girlfriend, I feel your pain!
I felt like that yesterday, too, when I ate the last bite of my ice cream!
Wait... yesterday... I should have written this then!
"#Fairytales Tonight!" was performed on Sunday evening.

True, it was so very delightful that I watched it again this morning!
As I've written of its Bento box, I guess I thought I was done.
Oops - must be my blonde roots!
This song, "Una volta c’era un re", had the shoe-challenged girl represented by Cloe SanAntonio, flanked to either side by her preening stepsisters, Leah Huber (left) and JoAnna Pope (right).
Such a delightful trio of songs!

Now, then, Cinderella was not the oly person from the land of make-believe that came to life tonight.
No, no, not in this svf-8, it wasn't!
Hansel and Gretel also had a turn to strut their... oh, wait, that's not quite appropriate when speaking of "An Evening Prayer", is it?
I'm sure Rachel Moon and Melanie Spector will forgive that slight slip of the tongue.
After all, they're praying.
(smile)

Those are both fairy tales I know.
"Flor de Yumuri" is not one I am familiar with at all.
Maybe Evelyn Saavedra heard it from her mother or grandmother as a bedtime story.
She certainly did sing it beautifully and I love that setting!
Such an interesting painting behind her satiny dress!

And what was going on here?
"Old Mother Hubbard" is not a fairy tale at all - it's a nursery rhyme, a Mother Goose nursery rhyme.
Still, I'd ride along with Chad Sonka any time he want to take his baritone out for a spin...
I will, I really will!
He's a man of many hats with VOICE, but I'm glad he still gets a chance to sing now and again.
(smile!)

The other three numbers in this episode of the Savannah VOICE Festival were not only definitely not fairy tales, but they were works from William Shakespeare!
At least "Sul fil d'un soffio etesio" from "Falstaff" - sung charmingly by Kathleen Buccleugh, in a dress that echoed the stained glass tones -
did speak of faeries in the lyrics.
At least it did that.

I heard no mention of mythical or magical folk in this energetic duet by Paul Gutmann and Olivia Gasper.
Nope, nary a one, though, if I understood "Pa-Pa-Pa Papageno" correctly, the two were trying to settle how many children to have.
Hey, I could see Mozart playing with such a notion, and this song was from "The Magic Flute", one of his oomedic works.
I know I laughed, even though I don't speak the language!

Even those not fluent in Italian know of this star-crossed pair, "Roméo et Juliette".
The scene is an early one: their meeting at the masquerade.
"Ange adorable (Madrigal" they might be, had only they been born under a more fortunate sky.
Emily Yocum Black and Sean Christensen were perfect as the lovers not meant to be.
And what a perfect ending this makes for my tale of Sunday.
(smile!)