Dvorak: Rusalka

With its wonderfully poetic and sensual score, Rusalka is Antonín Dvořák's most beloved opera, filled with musical effects that evoke the beauty and magic of a world inhabited by nymphs and water sprites. Jaroslav Kvapil's libretto is based on a famously tragic children's fairy tale, but in this acclaimed reinvention by directors Philipp Stölzl and Philipp M. Krenn, Rusalka is depicted as a young woman from the dark fringes of society. She trades her power of speech to live in Hollywood at the side of a handsome movie star, but is doomed to remain an outsider and a lost soul.

Annette Dasch, Johanni van Oostrum, Sopranos
Raehann Bryce-Davis, Mezzo-soprano
Pavel Černoch, Tenor
Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Bass
Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Joana Mallwitz, Conductor
Philipp Stölzl, Philipp M. Krenn, Stage directors