Lukas Zuschlag’s new Pepelka (Cinderella) for SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana moves Prokofiev’s fairy-tale ballet into a contemporary world of social pressure and false glamour. Cinderella is a young woman looking for her own place, the Prince is heir to his father’s shoe factory, and the famous slipper becomes a pair of shoes that are lost, separated and finally brought together again.
The production shifts between reality and dream. Fairies open the way into an imagined realm where everyday objects change shape and the rules of ordinary life loosen, and Nicola Reichert’s sets, Leo Kulaš’s costumes and Jaka Šimenc’s lighting move with it, from a striped domestic interior to a stage ruled by an enormous moon. The photographs trace that journey from the barre and the stepsisters’ household to the ball and the quiet, open ending.
Premiere: 8 October 2026, SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana. A co-production with Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
Credits:
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography and direction: Lukas Zuschlag
Conductor: Ayrton Desimpelaere
Set design: Nicola Reichert
Costume design: Leo Kulaš
Lighting design: Jaka Šimenc
Dramaturgy: Tatjana Ažman
Assistant choreographer: Mateja Železnik
Production: Ballet and Orchestra of SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana
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