Kristine Opolais sings the title character’s “Song to the Moon” from Act I of Rusalka. Kristine Opolais sings “Song to the Moon” from Act I. Kristine Opolais stars in her first Met performance as the ...

The soprano Renée Fleming sings the aria "Song to the Moon" from the opera Rusalka. The American soprano Renée Fleming won the Met's National Council Auditions 25 years ago singing the mermaid's aria ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE final offering in this year's Wexford Festival, residing in its temporary quarters at Johnstown Castle, is Dvorak's 'Rusalka'. Following its Prague premiere in March 1901, 'Rusalka' has been part ...

In their new production for the Royal Opera, Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami give it a slight twist to reframe it as the despoliation of nature (rather than the supernatural) by humanity. The scenography ...

A lovely production by Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee stresses the magic and the early ecological message in the naiad Rusalka’s tragedy – in Act 3 her lake is polluted, her forest blighted. For the ...

Mary Elizabeth Williams (Foreign Princess), Ailyn Pérez (Rusalka) and Robert Watson (Prince) in Santa Fe Opera's 2023 production of Dvorak's 'Rusalka' at John Crosby Theatre, Santa Fe, N.M. Curtis ...