Rusalka - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Rusalka
Text Jaroslaw Kvapil
Lyrical fairy tale in three acts
Cast
Musical direction
Tomáš Hanus
Staging
Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Stage
Rolf Glittenberg
Costumes
Marianne Glittenberg
Light
Jürgen Hoffmann
Choreography
Lukas Gaudernak
The prince
Pavel Cernoch
The Foreign Princess
Eliška Weissová
The Aquarius
Adam Palka
Rusalka
Corinne Winters
Jezibaba
Okka von der Damerau
Contents
The story of a mermaid who falls in love with a person, leaves her element and fails in the world, runs through many fairy tales and legends in Europe. Just think of Hans Christian Andersen's short story The Little Mermaid, which enjoys enduring popularity to this day. Although Antonín Dvořák also oriented himself to Andersen with his »Rusalka«, he also dealt with numerous further themes in the opera, which premiered in 1901. In his »Lyric Fairy Tale« those urgent questions of the turn of the century that Sigmund Freud summarized under the catchphrase of cultural discomfort found expression. Psychologically, civilization and nature, fears and longings, power relations and gender definitions collide. Rusalka's loss of language clearly reflects fears of identification, exclusion and existential fears. Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf reflects these emotional and mental states in a surreal, inhospitable and oppressive world: between a snowy desert and barren woods, the story of the renegade water mermaid who falls in love with a prince who is not up to her claims is told in haunting images told. With Piotr Beczała and Kristīne Opolais, there are also singers on stage who always discover a touching depth dimension in all their characters.
Subject to change.
Lyrical fairy tale in three acts
Cast
Musical direction
Tomáš Hanus
Staging
Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Stage
Rolf Glittenberg
Costumes
Marianne Glittenberg
Light
Jürgen Hoffmann
Choreography
Lukas Gaudernak
The prince
Pavel Cernoch
The Foreign Princess
Eliška Weissová
The Aquarius
Adam Palka
Rusalka
Corinne Winters
Jezibaba
Okka von der Damerau
Contents
The story of a mermaid who falls in love with a person, leaves her element and fails in the world, runs through many fairy tales and legends in Europe. Just think of Hans Christian Andersen's short story The Little Mermaid, which enjoys enduring popularity to this day. Although Antonín Dvořák also oriented himself to Andersen with his »Rusalka«, he also dealt with numerous further themes in the opera, which premiered in 1901. In his »Lyric Fairy Tale« those urgent questions of the turn of the century that Sigmund Freud summarized under the catchphrase of cultural discomfort found expression. Psychologically, civilization and nature, fears and longings, power relations and gender definitions collide. Rusalka's loss of language clearly reflects fears of identification, exclusion and existential fears. Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf reflects these emotional and mental states in a surreal, inhospitable and oppressive world: between a snowy desert and barren woods, the story of the renegade water mermaid who falls in love with a prince who is not up to her claims is told in haunting images told. With Piotr Beczała and Kristīne Opolais, there are also singers on stage who always discover a touching depth dimension in all their characters.
Subject to change.
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