The MET: Live in HD 2018 - Cendrillon (Cinderella) excerpt

Make her the most beautiful girl in the room, says The Fairy Godmother (Kathleen Kim), as she is ready to transform Lucette (Joyce DiDonato) into Cinderella... “Glorious,” raved the New York Times when Joyce DiDonato sang the title role of Cendrillon at the Royal Opera in 2011. “Her performance was thoroughly enchanting.” Now, for the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with DiDonato starring in the title role. She is paired with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.