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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lithuanian soprano Azmik Grigorian as Rusalka at the Royal Opera House (Camilla Greenwell) Reading a director’s rationale before ...

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 ...

Last week Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) and Iowa Public Broadcasting Service started the 2020 Virtual Opera season with a stunning airing of "Manon." The decision to go virtual this season was due to ...

Garsington’s triumphant staging of Dvorak’s dark fairytale opera Garsington planned its production of Dvorak’s dark fairytale Rusalka for 2020 – then Covid intervened. Rescheduled for this season, it ...

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 ...