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, ...

Opera Orlando was on the road this weekend, bringing a beautiful production of Dvořák’s “Rusalka” to the grounds of the Maitland Art Center. Think “The Little Mermaid” moves to Florida and, like many ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Toward the end of his fertile creative life, Antonin Dvorak refused to fixate on his status as the composer of beloved symphonies, chamber music and concertos. Instead, he longed to put his stamp on ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Howard/Metropolitan Opera Kristine Opolais and Eric Owens (left). Photo: Ken ...