For the Christmas period, Cenerentola (Cinderella), the ballet set to the music of Sergej Prokofiev and choreographed by Frédéric Olivieri, director of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala Ballet School, returns to enchant audiences. 
The ballet, commissioned by the Fondazione Bracco in 2015, sees more than 100 dancers on stage. The score, with the prominent presence of classic and popular dance, court dances and exotic dances, pas de deux and variations, is particularly suitable for the young performers. 
Maestro Olivieri puts the skills and the expressiveness of the pupils to the test in various moments of the two acts of the ballet; in the first act, there is the dance of the four seasonal fairies, called on by the Fairy Godmother to make Cinderella’s dreams come true and lead her to the ball; in the second act, the court ball, the dance of the three oranges – the Prince’s gift that the stepsisters fight for, – the Spanish and Arabesque dances, the variations and the pas de deux between Cinderella and the Prince.