Cendrillon

Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de verre ( " Cendrillon or the little glass slipper " ) is the title of a fairy tale from the 1697 published collection of French fairy tale writer Charles Perrault. In his version of the very popular fairy tale substance he has resorted issued on a template from the 1674 posthumously as Pentamerone ( " 5-day story" ) Fairy Tales collection of Italian fairy tale poet Giovanni Battista Basile.

The figure of Cendrillon largely corresponds to the German trains Cinderella or Cinderella. Unlike the Brothers Grimm Cendrillon loses in the French version but no golden shoe, but a shoe made ​​of glass. Specifically, in Perrault also drawn from mice pumpkin carriage that Cendrillon brings to the ball of the Prince.

As an opera Cendrillon material was at times quite popular and has edited five times musically. The 1759 wrote under this title by Jean Louis Laruette act opera had no noticeable success. 1810 created two operas called Cendrillon: The authored by Daniel Steibelt work was first performed in St. Petersburg and enjoyed primarily at Russian theaters some popularity. Successful, however, was the opera Cendrillon by Nicolò Isouard, which was performed throughout Europe and was displaced only by Gioachino Rossini thematically from the same source -added opera La Cenerentola sustained from the game plans; Today is the opera of Isouard no longer in the repertoire.

The best known was Jules Massenet's almost ninety years later composed the opera Cendrillon from 1899, which was even successfully staged not only in Europe and the U.S., but in 1907 in Cairo. In 1928, the piece in London was shown as a puppet show, which was more of a social comedy than a fairy tale. In Germany, the opera was first used in 1967 in Darmstadt and later in Cologne on the stage, but was greatly cut for its on French standards and not prevail here by the German public not understood allusions in the libretto. In France, Massenet's Cendrillon is especially popular during the Christmas season until today.

Furthermore, Pauline Viardot wrote an opera Cendrillon in three acts.

Modern workings of the story, such as the ballet Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev Soluscha or from the year 1945 and the same Disney animated film from 1950 attack on motives of the Perrault fairy tale and are designed largely according to this template.

As a figure Cendrillon also appears in Georges Brassens ' Chanson la chasse aux papillons to 1952.