Cendrillon

Cendrillon was billed as a fairy-tale ballet in three acts with a score by Ferdinand Sor and a libretto and choreography by Albert Decombe (see eighteenth-century volume for Decombe). It had its world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music on 3 March 1823 and is not to be confused with later ballets based upon the Cinderella story. Its sets were designed by Pierre Cicéri. The curtain rises on the ballet to reveal a gothic room with a large fireplace where Cendrillon has been asleep. She is busy…