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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The problem with opera is that even when the music is timeless, the storytelling can be so very dated. If it weren’t for the former, we wouldn’t have to put up with the latter. Antonín Dvořák’s ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Portland Opera continues the 2022/23 season with Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka, ...

So declared Portland Opera general director Sue Dixon on April 22 as she introduced a Czech opera for its first Portland performance: Rusalka, the ninth (and most internationally renowned) opera of ...

CZECH television and stage director Jiří Nekvasil must have known that an untraditional staging of Antonín Dvořák's penultimate opera, Rusalka, would stir emotions. Dvořák is a cultural icon, whose ...

When novelist J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings became a trio of blockbuster movies, the films added an element to the plot line that Tolkien basically ignored: romance. In the first ...