Rusalka is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil (1868–1950) based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. A ...

Rusalka is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben. A rusalka is a water sprite from Slavic mythology, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most of the time in the opera world, the same perhaps 50 venerable classics are performed over and over again. They are great works, and it is worth hearing ...

A lush musical score, a stellar cast of singers, imaginative set design, fine choreography — what more could an opera company ask from a production? A full house, perhaps? Whole rows of empty seats ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antonin Dvorak's operas are almost completely unknown outside the composer's native land, with the notable exception of "Rusalka." The opera -- sad and tender, full of pale, poetic beauty and ...

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 ...