Vasyl Slipak won an award for the song from what opera?
Toreador Song The Toreador Song is the popular name for the aria "Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre " from the opera "Carmen", composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It is sung by the bullfighter Escamillo as he enters in act 2 ("toréador" is a French term for "bullfighter") and describes various situations in the bullring, the cheering of the crowds and the fame that comes with victory. The refrain, "Toréador, en garde ", forms the middle part of the of "Carmen".
Cinderella (Fitinhof-Schell) Cinderella (ru. «Золушка», "Zolushka") (fr. "Cendrillon") is a "ballet-féerie" in three acts, with the choreographyof Enrico Cecchetti (Acts I and III) and Lev Ivanov (Act II) supervised by Marius Petipa. Music is by Baron Boris Fitinhoff-Schell; the libretto is by Lidia Pashkova (ru: Лидия Александровна Пашкова) and Ivan Vsevolozhsky. It was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on 17 December [O.S. 5 December] 1893 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire.