Eliza must knit magic shirts from stinging nettles in order to break the spell and transform her brothers back into human form.
The score was completed in 2002 in collaboration with choreographer Meryl Tankard, who had also worked with Kats-Chernin on part of the opening ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
[2] This was recorded in 2004 by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ola Rudner, with soprano Jane Sheldon, and released on the ABC Classics label along with the composer's Piano Concerto[clarification needed] and the orchestral composition Mythic (2004).
The suite was given its Australian concert premiere on 18 May 2008, by Matthew Krel conducting the SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra with soprano Simone Easthope at the Verbrugghen Hall of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
[3] The "Eliza Aria" recording featuring the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Jane Sheldon was chosen for use in a series of television and cinema advertisements for British bank Lloyds TSB under the tagline "For the Journey", launched in January 2007.