Once upon a time there was a poor girl named Cinderella, who had to fetch and carry after her two vain and chavvy (but entertaining) half-sisters. They all lived, not so happily as it happened, with their amusingly bumbling patriarch, Don Magnifico (Henry Waddington), in a caravan - proving that the family was truly no more than trailer trash.
A clever director called Daniel Slater decided that the Prince Ramiro’s tutor, Alidoro, would be cast as a film director searching for a leading lady to play out the rest of her days as the Prince’s wife. This meant the chorus could pretend to be paparazzi interviewing the film stars, which was nice.
It also meant that a trio of Paris Hilton lookalike dancers with awesome legs could audition for the female lead, alongside the chavette sisters (who wore, OMG, like the grossest clashing bright tops with their tight black leggings). No wonder they bombed.
Cinderella was sung by Ezgi Kutlu, who mostly looked really sad (even when she arrived at the ball looking gorgeous), but her voice was a bit like an athlete and a gymnast rolled into one, and never got tired (unlike her love interest Prince Ramiro, sung by Antonis Koroneos). As Ramiro’s valet Dandidi, Quirijn de Lang looked as if he belonged on a film set, and sounded as hot as he looked. More incredibly, Joshua Bloom (the tutor Alidoro) had a gushing voice that some would say you only get in a land of make-believe.
One of England’s unrecognised dukes of opera, David Parry, whipped up the orchestra with his magic wand and, not surprisingly, the audience left the beautiful manor and gardens of Garsington happily ever after.
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