Festival

Singer

Soprano

Alyona Rostovskaya

Rusalka

Bass

Wilfried Staber

Vodnik

Tenor

Chaz'men Williams-Ali

Prince

Magdalena Anna Hofmann

Princess

Elina Junghyun Kim

First Nymph

Katarina Morfa

Second Nymph

Mezzo-soprano

Kylee Slee

Third Nymph

Baritone

Ipča Ramanović

The Hunter

The Gamekeeper

Zlata Khershberg

The Turnspit

Almerija Delic

Leo McFall

Paul Taubitz

Conductor

Stage director

Axel Vornam

Set designer

Tom Musch

Costume designer

Cornelia Kraske

Video designer

Stefan Bischoff

Choreographer

Eric Rentmeister

Chorus master

Michael Pichler

Dramaturge

Ulrike Schumann

Heidelberg

Germany

Theater Heidelberg

Choir of the Heidelberg Theater

Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra

Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele

Czech

Public

Opera

German

Approved

The longing for the other, for the water woman Rusalka this means: living and feeling with a human soul, feeling solid ground under two feet and being loved.
This longing causes Rusalka to enter into a fateful deal with the witch Jezibaba. As a human child, she is allowed to follow the prince she desires, but loses her voice as a result. But without a voice of her own, Rusalka remains an outsider, and it doesn't take long for the prince to turn to another woman...
In the beginning there was an opera text. The Czech poet and dramaturge Jaroslav Kvapil wrote it in 1899 after a holiday on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, adapting a fairy tale popular in the 19th century for the big stage. Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), who by then had already composed eight major operas, used them to create his masterpiece, which continues to delight audiences around the world to this day.

English

Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák, From Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele (2022/2022), Directed by Axel Vornam,, Conductor Leo McFall, Paul Taubitz

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele

Leo McFall

Paul Taubitz

Axel Vornam

Cast

Alyona Rostovskaya

Wilfried Staber

Chaz'men Williams-Ali

Magdalena Anna Hofmann

Elina Junghyun Kim

Katarina Morfa

Kylee Slee

Ipča Ramanović

Ipča Ramanović

Zlata Khershberg

Almerija Delic

Crew

Tom Musch

Cornelia Kraske

Stefan Bischoff

Eric Rentmeister

Michael Pichler

Ulrike Schumann

Ensemble

Choir of the Heidelberg Theater

Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra

Program, About & Synopsis

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues 5