Rusalka - Opera - Season 18/19 Programming

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rusalka

Opéra Bastille - from 29 January to 13 February 2019

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rusalka

Opera Antonín Dvořák

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Opéra Bastille - from 29 January to 13 February 2019

3h20 with 2 intervals

Language : Czech

Surtitle : French / English

Opening night : 29 January 2019
Under 40 : 4 February 2019

Rusalka

Opera in three acts

Music :

Antonín Dvořák

Libretto :

Jaroslav Kvapil

Conductor :

Susanna Mälkki

Director :

Robert Carsen

Set design :

Michael Levine

Costume design :

Michael Levine

Lighting design :

Robert Carsen

Peter Van Praet

Choreography :

Philippe Giraudeau

Chorus master :

Alessandro Di Stefano
Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Le Prince :

Klaus Florian Vogt

La Princesse étrangère :

Karita Mattila

Rusalka :

Camilla Nylund

L'Esprit du lac :

Thomas Johannes Mayer

Jéžibaba :

Ekaterina Semenchuk

La Voix d'un chasseur :

Danylo Matviienko

Le Garçon de cuisine :

Jeanne Ireland

Première nymphe :

Andreea Soare

Deuxième nymphe :

Emanuela Pascu

Troisième nymphe :

Élodie Méchain

Le Garde forestier :

Tomasz Kumiega

About

In few words:

Poetry and sensuality take pride of place in this production of Rusalka, created for the Paris Opera in 2001. In taking up the well-known subject of the siren, Dvořák wrote a bewitching score that plunges the spectator into a mysterious and disturbing universe, magnificently represented in Robert Carsen’s production. Reality and the supernatural, earth and water, humans and ethereal beings are juxtaposed in this almost sublimely dreamlike opera. However, the meeting between two worlds is never without consequences: if the dreamworld nymph Rusalka sacrifices her voice, the only too human Prince loses his life.