Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203

Composer: Dvorak, Antonin

Librettist/Text Author: Kvapil, Jaroslav

Conductor: Hanus, Tomas

Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra

Chorus: Bavarian State Opera Chorus

Jezibaba: Baechle, Janina

Rusalka: Opolais, Kristine

The Foreign Princess: Krasteva, Nadia

The Forester: Ress, Ulrich

The Prince: Vogt, Klaus Florian

The Walter Goblin: Groissbock, Gunther

Set Designer: Zehetgruber, Martin

Costume Designer: Hackl, Heidi

Lighting Designer: Traub, Reinhard

Stage Director: Kusej, Martin

Television Director: Grimm, Thomas

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Venue: National Theater, Munich

Playing Time: 02:33:15

Catalogue Number: A05018371

Synopsis

Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203

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This highly acclaimed production from the Bayerische Staatsoper was a veritable sensation and a double revelation. That of the powerful and fascinating re-interpretation of Antonin Dvorak's fairy-tale opera Rusalka and that of the young, up-and-coming Latvian soprano, Kristine Opolais, whose performance was hailed by the press as “one of the most vivid and striking accomplishments seen on an opera stage in a long time” (Vienna's daily “Der Standard”). With her velvety soprano, her captivating beauty and her tremendous stage presence, Opolais perfectly embodies the role of the water nymph who becomes a human in order to find love, but loses all hope when her prince is seduced by a sensual princess. Renowned director Martin Kusej compellingly accentuates the psychological misery of the spurned nymph.