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Cruel sisters. Kind heroine. Bell-bottoms.
You know the story. Stepsisters, a missing shoe, a happy ending. Rossini wrote the whole thing — music, orchestration, the lot — in three weeks in 1817, when he was twenty-five years old. But Rossini’s Cinderella is its own creature: no fairy godmother, no pumpkin. The magic is the heroine’s stubborn belief that kindness costs nothing and changes everything.

Stuart Maunder sets it in 1970s Adelaide. Wallpaper. Polyester. A kitchen radio. The shoe stays. And at the end, when she could leave her stepfather and stepsisters with nothing, she forgives them instead.

CINDERELLA La Cenerentola

Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Symphony returns to The Joan in Penrith for a brilliant concert featuring three pieces that capture the sensuous depth and drama of night.

Mozart and Poetic Inspirations

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre

Night time is a charged time, liberated from the routine of daylight duties. Perhaps that’s why composers seem to find life after dark so full of magic and possibility.

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Transfigured Night

City Recital Hall

Sir Donald Runnicles is a master concert-maker. His concerts are always fascinating combinations – and here he conducts three beautiful French masterpieces by Claude Debussy and Maurice Duruflé.

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Dowsley

Events

Past events

7 - 17 May, 2026

CINDERELLA La Cenerentola · State Opera South Australia

Oct 11, 2024

Mozart and Poetic Inspirations · Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cinderella in La Cenerentola by Rossini

State Opera South Australia

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