Cendrillon, a three act operetta, premiered on the 23rd of April in this typical Paris setting.
Cendrillon (Viardot): Cendrillon is a chamber operetta with dialogue in three acts by Pauline Viardot based on the story of "Cinderella". Cendrillon (Viardot):  The work, for a cast of seven with piano orchestration, premiered in Viardot's Paris salon on 23 April 1904, when she was 83, and was published later that year. Salon (gathering): A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. Salon (gathering):  Salons, commonly associated with French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries, were carried on until as recently as the 1940s in urban settings.
Salons