This character titles an 1816 opera whose overture begins with bassoons and low strings playing a quiet double-dotted melody that leads into two loud tutti E-flat major chords.
This character titles an 1816 opera whose overture begins with bassoons and low strings playing a quiet double-dotted melody that leads into two loud tutti E-flat major chords. This character's hardships are compared to "a flash of lightning, a dream, a game" in an aria that begins with the cantabile section "Nacqui all'affanno." This is the higher-pitched of the two characters who recount how they "murmured our how-do-you-do's" in the duet "Ten Minutes Ago." This character titles the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical produced directly for television. A large amount of sticky (*) pitch spread over a set of stairs immobilizes this character's escape, prompting her to sing "On the Steps of the Palace," in Sondheim's Into the Woods. An adaptation of this character named Angelina is the title protagonist of Rossini's La Cenerentola, in which Don Magnifico replaces the role of the evil stepmother. For 10 points, name this character who, in a Prokofiev ballet, loses her glass slipper.
This character titles an 1816 opera whose overture begins with bassoons and low strings playing a quiet double-dotted melody that leads into two loud tutti E-flat major chords.
Cinderella [or Angelina before "Angelina" is read; or La Cenerentola before "Cenerentola" is read; or Zolushka; or Cendrillon] 