Paul Herriott brings us the romantic tale of Cinderella by Alma Deutscher. This version of the famous fairy tale involves modifications of the plot, now revolving around music. But equally, her treatment of music has something of an enchanting child’s play about it. She sets it in an opera house inhabited by a crowd of creative people – Megan O’Neill sings Cinderella, herself being a talented composer consigned to the drudgery of being a copyist. The Ugly Sisters – less talented, of course – are a couple of would-be divas. The Prince is a poet who is mocked at court for his artistic leanings, and after her midnight flight from the palace he seeks her out using not a slipper but one of her melodies as the identifying proof. They find each other ‘like lyrics find melody’. Andrew Synnott conducts the Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 19th November, 7pm-10pm