Name: Rusalka
Start: 2024-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Théâtre de la Place

Organization

Dirigat

Giampaolo Bisanti

Regie

Rodula Gaitanou

Bühnenbild

Cordelia Chisholm

Kostümbild

Lichtgestaltung

Simon Corder

Choreographie

Gianni Santucci

Videogestaltung

Dick Straker

Sänger

Sopran

Corinne Winters

Rusalka

Tenor

Anton Rositskii

Der Prinz

Jana Kurucova

Die fremde Fürstin

Bass

Evgeny Stavinsky

Der Wassermann

Jiří Rajniš

Der Förster

Hongni Wu

Der Küchenjunge

Lucie Kaňková

Erste Elfe

Mezzosopran

Sofia Janelidze

Dritte Elfe

Katerina Hebelková

Zweite Elfe

Bariton

Alexander Marev

Ein Jäger

Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Liège

Orchestra

Royal Opera of Wallonia Orchestra

Others

Choeur de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Nino Surguladze

Jezibaba

Lüttich

Belgien

Théâtre de la Place

Public

Luis Mariano Nomdedeu

Genehmigt

Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil

Rusalka, a water nymph, has fallen in love with a prince and wishes to become human. The witch Ježibaba performs a spell that forces the water nymph to remain mute. Tired of her silence, the prince turns away from her and falls in love with a foreign princess. When the Prince tries to repent, Rusalka confesses the effects of the spell and drags him under the water.

The poet and playwright Jaroslav Kvapil was inspired by the German romantic story of La Motte-Fouque, the Ondine, which was very successful throughout Europe. The Little Mermaid, a famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, was the most famous illustration. Antonín Dvořak, the most famous Czech composer, was looking for a libretto for his new opera. Kvapil proposed Rusalka, which immediately seduced the composer. In the spring of 1901, the magnificent and moving work immediately met with triumphant success and today is one of the most performed Slavic operas.

A large part of the work was composed during the summer, in the countryside. Not far from his home, the composer often strolled around a lake that fascinated him. There he found, in imagining the undine and all the aquatic mythology, the inspiration and the atmosphere of his sublime drama.

If the famous “Chant a la Lune” has become one of the favorite arias of romantic lyric art, the entire opera is worth a visit, happily playing with a sublime orchestration and masterfully highlighting a vocalite particularly adapted to each character.

FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE ORW!
NOUVELLE PRODUCTION
OPÉRA ROYAL DE WALLONIE-LIÈGE
WITH THE SUPPORT OF TAX SHELTER OF THE FEDERAL BELGIAN GOVERNMENT AND BEL ARTS FUND

English

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Besetzung

Produktionsteam

Ensemble