With Anne Sophie Duprels as the titular water nymph, backed distinctively by Peter Wedd and Willard White, this stylish production of Dvořák’s dark opera avoids the excesses of some interpretations A ...

In the version of the story adapted by Dvorak’s librettist Jaroslav Kvapil, the heroine pines for the human Prince (Rosario ...

The neglect of Rusalka is puzzling. Like many in the Edinburgh audience I have only ever heard the justifiably famous “Song to the moon”, heard early in the first act, the melting cadences of which ...

Here’s some tragedy for you: Picture Sondra Radvanovsky, the celebrity soprano who’s earned her fame with her extraordinary voice, standing downstage centre of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing ...

Kristine Opolais stars in her first Met performance as the title character in Antonin Dvořák's Rusalka. The critically acclaimed new staging, directed by Mary Zimmerman and conducted by Mark Elder, ...

Reading a director’s rationale before watching their take on a classic can blunt the freshness of one’s responses. But there are times when some preliminary swotting is essential, and so it is with ...

Garsington Opera is making the most of the embarrassment of musical riches Dvořák offers in his Rusalka – adding acrobats and aerialists to their staging for good measure, writes Ken Walton Did you ...

Boos greeted the first night of the production of Rusalka at Covent Garden; it fared little better on its Salzburg premiere in 2008 Perhaps I've led a sheltered life, but it wasn't until the third act ...

First performed in Prague in 1901, Jaroslav Kvapil’s libretto is a fairytale heavily indebted to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Water nymph Rusalka falls in love with a prince and goes ...

In the first act, the water nymph Rusalka (soprano Kristine Opolais) asks the all-seeing moon to send her love to the Prince, whom she's been watching in secret. When novelist J. R. R. Tolkien's ...

FOR their second new production last week, Opera North brought us Dvorak's Rusalka. It's a very beautiful score to a very bad libretto (what opera could recover from having the central character dumb ...