Last Sunday's afternoon matinee of Gioachino Rossini's "Cinderella" ("La Cenerentola") at the Lyric Opera set me musing. Why would Lyric director Anthony Freud schedule a romantic feminist dramma giocoso, a chamber opera, in his cavernous 3,563-seat house? My answer: Freud aimed at the eight-to-twelve-year-old North Shore demographic, privileged kids whose parents think nothing of plunking […]
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:30PM on October 6, 2015