[And sometimes, Prince Charming is a Golden Girl: Helen Lepalaan (Le Prince Charmant) in Massenet’s “Cendrillon”, Opera Zuid 2008.]
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And sometimes, that is all it takes: that the Prince is a girl.
[But what if the Prince and the Princess were both girls, and both mezzos? Fairy tale complete! – Francis von Broekhuisen (Cendrillon) and Helen Lepalaan (Le Prince Charmant) in Massenet’s “Cendrillon”, Opera Zuid 2008.]
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These photos are something I have wanted to post as White Shirt Monday for a long time – years, even.
There is the glosser, much more high-end Pelly production of “Cendrillon”, but this simple one (the two clips from which the caps stem are available on YT) has always moved me in a different way, perhaps because Cendrillon is actually staged as an average girl who gets the Disney Prince(ss) in the end. And sometimes, the Prince being a Princess – while wearing the same frock – makes all the difference indeed.
Queer Lorgnette 
All the difference indeed!
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Oh I like this. And I really want somebody to stage Cherubin.
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There is the recording cover with Flicka (a staging of its own, but no video…) and that over the top baroquevaganza with Breedt – but I could do with sleeker staging. Preferably right now.
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There was something about this image that just seemed so familiar, and then it clicked… https://goo.gl/images/m9gNwF
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Sorry – a more direct link: https://madamemanga.deviantart.com/art/Kate-Mulgrew-as-Janeway-91938846
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okay, my fondness of this Cendrillon production suddenly makes even more sense to me. Wow.
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