Cinderella by Metropolitan Ballet 2022 @ PANTAGES Theatre

Cinderella The Story: With fairies, comic stepsisters, and a secretly powerful beggar, librettist Nikolai Volkov’s scenario adds a little extra magic to the tale of a servant girl who loses a slipper and the prince who finds it. The History: Basking in the acclaim for his masterpiece ballet Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev was commissioned to produce Cinderella—but then World War II arrived in Russia. While he set the fairy tale aside to focus on more nationalistic works, Prokofiev’s imagination began weaving a tapestry of pas-de-deux, waltzes, and mazurkas, all slightly inflected by the discord of the world around him. The work finally debuted in Moscow just two months after the end of the war. Twin Cities Metropolitan Ballet 4-5 June 2022