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 ...

Strange things are afoot in the deep darkness of the woods when humans, wood nymphs, water sprites, goblins, witches, and other creatures intermingle - knowingly or otherwise. Lyric Opera of Chicago ...

Fans of “The Little Mermaid” will love composer Antonín Dvořák’s opera “Rusalka” (Portland Opera, Keller Auditorium, April 22, 28 and 30). A water sprite (Rusalka) falls in love with a prince, and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "Kelly has become the opera world's 'go-to' Rusalka, and it's no wonder," said ...

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 ...

It is not surprising that some directors feel the need to mix Dvořák’s Rusalka just a little. Its setting is so fantastical that to spend over three hours in the presence of nymphs, witches, goblins ...

Sometimes we pursue our dreams, and they come to fruition. Sometimes they don’t. “Rusalka,” presented by Portland Opera at the Keller Auditorium this month, gives us the latter viewpoint. It’s a ...

Listen to our quick, lighthearted overview of Rusalka, Antonín DvoÅ™ák’s achingly beautiful paean to human love. In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly, ...

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 ...

The Opera National de Paris mounted this production of Antonin Dvorak's lyric fairy tale opera +Rusalka in 2002, starring Renee Fleming as the title character, Larissa Diadkova as Jezibaba, Sergei ...

Jezibaba (Jamie Barton) casts a spell on Rusalka (Kristine Opolais). Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera. Even though Dvorak’s opera Rusalka boasts luxuriously romantic music and an intriguing myth-based ...