Purchase Opera’s ‘Cinderella’ moment

Scenes from Purchase Opera”™s 2021 production of Jules Massenet”™s “Cendrillon” (“Cinderella”). Courtesy Purchase Opera.

Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 17 through 20, Purchase Opera”¯and its director Jacque Trussel”¯will present the luscious music of Jules Massenet”™s “Cendrillon” (“Cinderella”). This timeless story of a scullery maid who becomes a princess will be offered in a condensed version with English surtitles in the Conservatory of Music”™s Recital Hall on campus at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase. 

Performances are at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 through 19 and 1 p.m. Nov. 20.  

Purchase Opera features students of the Conservatory of Music”™s Voice and Opera Studies. The company has won more than a dozen top awards from the National Opera Association for its professional-quality productions, as well as the American Prize for best director and the Ernst Bacon Memorial award for the conducting of American music. 

Admission is free. For more, call 914-251-6700 or email ”¯music@purchase.edu.