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Floricienta
Florencia Bertotti starring as Florencia 'Flor' Fazzarino-Santillán Valente in the Argentine soap opera Floricienta.
Genre	Romance/Musical
Creator(s)	Cris Morena
Starring	See Cast and characters below
Country of origin	Argentina
Production
Running time	60 min
Broadcast
Original run	March 15, 2004 – December 2, 2005
Links
Official website
IMDb profile

Floricienta is an Argentinean soap opera that ran from 2004 to 2005.

Contents 1 Background 2 Cast and characters 3 Trivia 4 External links

Floricienta is loosely copied from the story of Cinderella and also presents some comparisons to the film The Sound of Music. The plot revolves around Flor, a poor Italian-Argentine girl whose life changes when she meets Federico Fritzenwalden, the son of a rich German-Argentinian who falls in love with her upon meeting her. But Federico has a girlfriend, Delfina (the witch), who wants Federico because of his money. Federico's brothers and his sister hate Delfina. But when Flor comes to the Fritzenwaldens' residence, everybody loves her.

The show title is a mix between Cenicienta (Cinderella in Spanish-speaking countries) and Flor (the main character's name). The show wasn't heavily-influenced by the original Cinderella story, besides the fact Fede is "Flor's Prince Charming" and the fact Floricienta trademark is her shoes (that she forgot at Fede's house during the first episode, when the kids throw a party without Fede concent, where Flor's band was hired to play, but he ends up coming back from Germany before he planned and everybody runs from the house. An angry Federico demands to know who had the idea for the party and the kids blame "the singer", so Federico decides to find the singer and the only thing he has from her is her shoe, a Converse-style sneaker).

In the end of the first season, the show gets a big twist.

Federico after realizing that his girlfriend Delfina was lying to him all the time leaves her at the church during their wedding and goes to Flor. Then after a while he dies in an accident, saving Maximo Calderon de la Olla who then gives his Body to Federico's soul. In the second season Flor falls in love with Maximo and they get married in the end. They also have 3 children and a very strong love that came from the part of Fede inside Max.

• Florencia Bertotti as Florencia Fazzarino-Santillán Valente
• Juan Gil Navarro as Federico Fritzenwalden (2004, died in a car crash saving Conde Maximo )
• Benjamin Rojas as Franco Fritzenwalden
• Fabio Di Tomaso as Conde Maximo Augusto Calderón de la Hoya (2005)
• Isabel Macedo as Delfina Santillán Torres-Oviedo
• Graciela Stefani as María Laura (Malala) Torres-Oviedo de Santillán
• Gerardo Chendo as Bonilla
• Esteban Pérez as Matías Ripamonti
• Camila Bordonaba as Paloma/Julieta
• Pablo Heredia as Pedro
• Alejo García Pintos as Evaristo (2005)
• Esteban Prol As Lorenzo
• Stefano Di Gregorio as Tomas Fritzenwalden
• Mariana Espósito as Roberta
• Agustin Sierra as Martin Fritzenwalden
• Eugenia Suárez as Paz (2004)
• Catalina Artuzzi as Marina (2005)
• Henny Trayles as Greta Beethoven
• Diego Child as Facha (Danilo)
• Diego Mesaglio as Bata (Damián)
• Nicolas Maiques as Nicolás Fritzenwalden
• Paola Salustro as Maia Fritzenwalden
• Brenda Gandini as Olivia Fritzenwalden
• Felipe Colombo as Miky
• Maida Andrenacci as Valentina
• Mariana Seligman as Clara
• Micaela Vazquez as Nata (Renata)
• Piru Saenz as Piru
• Norberto Diaz as Eduardo Fazzarino (2004)
• Zulma Faiad as Titina
• Ángeles Balbiani as Sofia Santillán Torres-Oviedo
• Alberto Anchart as Antoine (2004)
• Esteban Perez as Matias (Matute) Ripamonti (2004)
• Micol Estévez as Dominique (2004)
• Hilda Bernard as Nilda Santillan (2004)

• The musical version for the show was a big production and sold out over 90 concerts at Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires with capacity for 3,000 people. The show was so huge, eight extra concerts were added at Luna Park (capacity: 8,000 people) and three at Estadio Velez (capacity: 40,000 people). The show also sold 50,000 seats at a Tel Aviv concert in Israel and had a sold-out tour around South America in places like Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Chile.
• It has a Brazilian version called Floribella and a Portuguese and Chilean version with the same name. The Colombian version is the same name with the original production. There's also Mexican version being broadcasted by mexican TV network Televisa. The Mexican version is called Lola... Erase una vez (Lola...Once Upon A Time), and has been moved from Televisa's main channel Canal de las Estrellas to Canal 5.
• In Argentina, while the soap was airing, you could get Floricienta merchandising in stores across Argentina and also on the Official Floricienta Merchandising stands in shopping malls like Abasto.

• Floricienta(Spanish)
• Floricienta Romania