The story of Cinderella is one of the best known fairytales, and Vienna Festival Ballet’s full length version has all the familiar ingredients. A downtrodden young girl, a glass slipper, two comical ugly step- sisters and a handsome prince combine to make the perfect piece of story-telling. The fairy godmother enables Cinderella to go to the ball, and she falls in love with the Prince.

A specially commissioned score, created solely for Vienna Festival Ballet by Chris Nicholls, with music from some of Rossini’s most famous operas, La Cenerentola, the Italian Girl in Algiers, Silken Ladder, adds to the magical fantasy world of the ballet Cinderella.