Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rusalka is the Czech version of the popular fairy tale The Little Mermaid. When ...
Irish National Opera’s coproduction, directed by Netia Jones, features the well-matched central pairing of Jennifer Davis and ...
Rusalka is based on the story we would all know as The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, though Antonin Dvorák used a Czech version of the folktale for this 1901 work. It tells of a water ...
Jones’s Rusalka is the story of a young woman eager to leave home and test herself. Her father, sung with great character by ...
In one of the loveliest operatic scores of all time, Dvořák makes cruel demands on his eponymous water nymph and the prince ...
Reading a director’s rationale before watching their take on a classic can blunt the freshness of one’s responses. But there are times when some preliminary swotting is essential, and so it is with ...
“Even divine nature needs its diminuendos and morendos, in order to come to life again and rise up, heading for a great crescendo, attaining her strength and stature once more in a mighty ff ...
A lush musical score, a stellar cast of singers, imaginative set design, fine choreography — what more could an opera company ask from a production? A full house, perhaps? Whole rows of empty seats ...
Houston Grand Opera scores one of its greatest triumphs of recent seasons with its revelatory production of Dvorak's enchanting "Rusalka." Magical transformations abound - and we're not refering just ...
The organ played by composer Antonin Dvorak during his stay in Spillville in 1893 is on display at the museum. (Adam Wesley/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...