Organization

Edinburgh International Festival

Conductor

Douglas Boyd

Stage director

Jack Furness

Set designer

Tom Piper

Lighting designer

Malcolm Rippeth

Choreographer

Fleur Darkin

Circus Choreographer

Lina Johansson

Singer

Soprano

Natalya Romaniw

Rusalka

Tenor

Gerard Schneider

Prince

Bass

Makudupanyane Senaona

Vodnik

Sky Ingram

Princess

Mezzo-soprano

Christine Rice

Jezibaba

John Findon

The Gamekeeper

Grace Durham

The Turnspit

Marlena Devoe

First Nymph

Heather Lowe

Second Nymph

Stephanie Wake-Edwards

Third Nymph

Katy Thomson

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Czech

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Rusalka Dvořák,A

Public

English

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.

Rusalka by Dvořák, From (2022/2022), Directed by Jack Furness,, Conductor Douglas Boyd, Festival Theatre Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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