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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Poor Rusalka. The title character of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...