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Last year, Harvard entered the ECAC finals as a Cinderella. This year, the Crimson was expected to return to the championship game. But two things remain the same—the Big Red is waiting, and not many people think Harvard will...
...Cenerentola,” which follows the Cinderella tale almost to a tee, plays a few of its own tricks on the classic story: Prince Charming (the Italian Prince Ramiro, played by Frank C. Napolitano ’05) disguises himself as his personal valet (all the better to be the voyeur with, my dear!), and a pair of golden bracelets replaces the glass slipper Cinderella leaves on the ballroom steps, so that none of the actors go unshod—a distinct taboo in the days of Roman censors...
...miss no details, using a seemingly boundless imagination to craft elaborate frocks and extravagant dresses that suit each of their characters, in all senses. Jealous stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe wear gaudy gowns appropriate to their rather foul—if extremely entertaining—temperaments, while Cinderella (or Angelina, as Rossini dubbed her) emerges radiant from her tattered rags in a sparkling white wedding gown sans veil...
Notable among the cast of excellent singers is Cinderella herself, played by the stellar Lara M. Hirner ’04, whose clear voice floats effortlessly, not to mention accurately, from low note to high note—and hits every emotional note in between. Patrick J. Bradley ’05 makes a lanky, pompous and more humorous than realistic stepfather Don Magnifico, while a hilariously flamboyant Oussama Zahr ’04 plays Dandini, the Prince’s valet—or “Prince-for-a-day,” as he calls himself...
...story. In this production of “La Cenerentola,” there are no pumpkin stagecoaches, no fairy godmothers and no omnipotent wands. But the DHO cast and crew work more than enough of their own magic to transmogrify the banal into the beautiful. Both Prince and Cinderella find love and beauty in the unlikeliest of places, and so do we. —Tiffany I. Hsieh