Lighting Designer

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

It’s half a century since the infamous drowning of Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan; a moment in time that triggered an alleged police cover-up, a city-wide scandal, national outrage, a Scotland Yard investigation… and a glaring absence of convictions.

Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan

Sydney Opera House

As his body hit the water, few heard the impact. But the ripple effect of the murderous act defied natural law and swelled to seismic scale.

Lighting Designer

Nigel Levings

Events

Upcoming events

21 - 28 Nov, 2026

Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan · Opera Australia

Past events

7 - 17 May, 2026

CINDERELLA La Cenerentola · State Opera South Australia

14 - 16 Jun, 2024

Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan · Opera Australia

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