Name: Rusalka
Start: 2022-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Organization

Edinburgh International Festival

Dirigent

Douglas Boyd

Regisseur

Jack Furness

Set designer

Tom Piper

Licht ontwerper

Malcolm Rippeth

Choreograaf

Fleur Darkin

Circus Choreographer

Lina Johansson

Soprano

Natalya Romaniw

Rusalka

Tenor

Gerard Schneider

Princ

Bass

Makudupanyane Senaona

Vodník

Sky Ingram

Cizí kněžna

Mezzo-soprano

Christine Rice

Ježibaba

John Findon

Hajný

Grace Durham

Kuchtík

Marlena Devoe

První žínka

Heather Lowe

Druhá žínka

Stephanie Wake-Edwards

Třetí žínka

Katy Thomson

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Tsjechisch

Edinburgh

Verenigd Koninkrijk

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Rusalka Dvořák,A

Public

Engels

Approved

A new production of Dvořák’s best-loved opera, the dark fairy tale Rusalka, features Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw in the title role. One of the 2022 International Festival’s orchestras in residence, the Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by Douglas Boyd, Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Garsington Opera.

Rusalka is the haunting fable of a water sprite who sacrifices everything when she falls in love with a human prince.

She enlists the help of a witch, entering the mortal world and giving up her voice to be with him – only to discover the true cost of love is greater still. Inspired by sources including Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, Dvořák’s sensual opera shimmers with glinting orchestral colours. Sound and silence reverberate against each other as soaring romantic melodies sweep through the eerie quiet. Reality and the supernatural collide in luscious evocations of the natural world.

Natalya Romaniw is a sensational talent, awarded both Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020 and Singer of the Year at the Royal Philharmonic Society 2020 Awards. Glasgow-born conductor and former oboe virtuoso Douglas Boyd collaborates with director Jack Furness, Artistic Director of Shadwell Opera, who brings a rich theatrical flair to the narrative. Designer Tom Piper is most famous for his Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation of poppies at the Tower of London. Together, they craft a transporting fantasy with grave human intensity at its core.

English

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Productieteam

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