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La Cenicienta is an opera in three acts composed by Chilean artist Jorge Peña Hen (1928 - 1973).
This opera is one of the few in the world composed with the aim to be sung, acted and played exclusively by children. It was written in 1966 and played by Jorge Peña Hen's first Symphonic Orhestra of Children at the Theater of the Girls Public School in La Serena, a city in region IV (north) of Chile.
In 1967, the remarkable piece went on a tour through several cities in Chile: Valparaiso, Viña del Mar, Concepción and Santiago (capital). It's debut was followed by a great success.
In 1986, a new version of this children's opera was played in Colombia in 1986.
In 1998, 25 years after Jorge Peña Hen's assasination by Chile's military coup officials, another version was re-made in La Serena.
The plot of the opera is based on Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale "Cinderella". Nevertheless, the text of this version is written by the Chilean author, Oscar Jara Azocar (1910 - 1988).
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