 In January 2017, following the premiere of Deutscher's opera, "Cinderella", in Vienna, an article entitled "Alma and the dangerous love of melody" appeared in the Viennese newspaper Der Standard, which expressed the hope that Deutscher's melodious music may help to change the prevailing attitudes in contemporary classical music and inject a new life into the world of opera, by steering it back toward melody.The author, , notes the storm of enthusiasm with which Deutscher's "Cinderella" was received by the public, because it is full of beautiful melodies.He expresses the hope that Deutscher's love of melody might help opera reconnect with the wider public and inject new life into the world of opera, which is so often pronounced dead nowadays.