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This video presents a version of the beloved fairy tale of Cinderella, or La Cenerentola, as interpreted by composer Gioacchino Rossini. Musical conductor Donato Renzetti leads the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company in a lavish production of the age-old tale of the rags to riches story of a beautiful woman saved by a handsome prince, and the turning of the wheel of fortune in her favor to defeat the forces of evil that conspired against her with their jealousy.