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Sep 1st, 2005, 01:21 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4204332.stm
An opera company has been banned from performing Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella after setting the classic children's story in a brothel.
The Latvian National Opera performed its Cinderella ballet only twice, after complaints from Prokofiev's estate.
"There was a huge gap between the original music and the new story," said Noelle Mann, curator of the Sergei Prokofiev Archive.
But the opera company said it was "a very beautiful and sincere story".
Based on the classic fairytale, Prokofiev wrote the ballet Cinderella in the 1940s.
The new Latvian National Opera (LNO) adaptation was performed in Riga before being cancelled.
It set the story in a brothel, with Cinderella working as a maid, her step-sisters as call girls and her stepmother as the brothel madam.
An opera company has been banned from performing Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella after setting the classic children's story in a brothel.
The Latvian National Opera performed its Cinderella ballet only twice, after complaints from Prokofiev's estate.
"There was a huge gap between the original music and the new story," said Noelle Mann, curator of the Sergei Prokofiev Archive.
But the opera company said it was "a very beautiful and sincere story".
Based on the classic fairytale, Prokofiev wrote the ballet Cinderella in the 1940s.
The new Latvian National Opera (LNO) adaptation was performed in Riga before being cancelled.
It set the story in a brothel, with Cinderella working as a maid, her step-sisters as call girls and her stepmother as the brothel madam.