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This lecture series provides audiences with fresh insights from regional scholars and industry professionals to enrich appreciation and understanding of the operas in our season. Both established operagoers and curious newcomers alike are sure to make discoveries.

Please submit the form below to RSVP. Email lblankenship@kcopera.org or call (816) 802-6059 with any questions.

Please note new time and location below!

Something Old, Something New
Dr. Andrew Granade, speaker
Monday, September 15, 2025, 6:00–7:00 pm
Kirk Family YMCA
Respect and Responsibility Room
222 W 11th St., Kansas City, MO 64105

After countless rejections, librettist Jacopo Ferretti finally found a winner when he pitched an adaptation of La Cenerentola (Cinderella) to rising composer Gioachino Rossini. What followed was a whirlwind—forty-six days of feverish collaboration, borrowed arias, and bold departures from the familiar fairy tale script. Gone were the glass slipper and fairy godmother and, in their place, clever disguises and a sorcerous philosopher. The result? Cinderella—a comic opera that gleefully blends the traditional and the unexpected into something unmistakably Rossinian. Join us as we explore how this last-minute idea became one of opera’s most enchanting reinventions.

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