This much beloved opera, with its mythical and folk aspects, has delighted opera fans since its world premiere in 1901 Love struck Rusalka (soprano Alla Vasilevitsky) meets a handsome prince (tenor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The opera by Antonin Dvorak about a water nymph’s journey into the human world, first performed in 1901, is making its debut at La Scala in June. By David Belcher See more of our coverage in your ...

Opera Orlando goes On the Town in its All for Art season with a site-specific production of Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Art and History Museums of Maitland. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ...

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