LYNN ? The world premiere of “The Rough-Face Girl: An Algonquin Cinderella” by North Shore composer Gabriella Snyder will make its debut this weekend.Snyder, who lives in Malden, said a breathtaking moment at the Grand Canyon in 2006 rekindled an idea for a music drama she had put on the shelf years ago.”I was on a trail by myself and had just crossed a wide open stretch of scrub trees when I suddenly found myself at the brink of an inner canyon,” she said. “A giant raven was sitting right in front of me on a rock and I began to hear up in the cliffs the beautiful sound of the Native American flute. It brought me back to the project that I had wanted to work on years ago, and I began to write the piece in my sister’s car on the way home.”The Rough-Face Girl, a story from the Algonquian tribe, is the story of a Native American girl with a face burned and scarred from tending a fire, who sees things that others can’t and embarks on a quest to marry the Invisible Being.”Usually, in mythology and fairy tales, it is young men who go out to answer riddles and slay dragons in order to win their lady’s hand in marriage,” Snyder said. “I liked the idea of telling a story about a young woman having that same type of vision and fearlessness and determination. I think girls and women still need to see those traits modeled.”Snyder’s first “Prince of Peace – A Passion Play” premiered in 2003 in Boston and as a singer, she has performed with MassTheatrica, New Opera Theater Ensemble, Newton Opera Workshop, Lowell House Opera and the Binghamton Summer Savoyards.The Lynn-based theater company, Mass Theatrica, is producing the show, which opens Oct. 17 at First Parish, Malden and will be performed Oct. 18 at LynnArts.The opera is co-produced by Artistic Director Angeliki Theoharis and Executive Director Meredith Lavine.”We are honored to be asked to produce this beautiful work and to collaborate with such a talented composer,” Lavine said.The cast includes soprano Stephanie Mann as the Rough-Faced Girl, Bethany Tammaro Condon as her mother and Angeliki Theoharis as the medicine woman. Other performers includeRebecca Hains, Susan Craft and Lara Fox.The Oct. 17 show at First Parish in Malden, 2 Elm St., Malden is at 8 p.m. and the Oct. 18 show at LynnArts, 25 Exchange St., is at 4 p.m. Tickets, which will be available at the door and are available online at www.masstheatrica.org, are $15 for adults and $13 for students/seniors.If You Go?The Oct. 18 show atLynnArts, 25 Exchange St.,is at 4 p.m. Tickets, which will be available at the door and are availxable online at www.masstheatrica.org, are $15 for adults and $13 forstudents/seniors.