Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Giampaolo Bisanti

Regia

Rodula Gaitanou

Scenografia

Cordelia Chisholm

Costumi

Luci

Simon Corder

Coreografia

Gianni Santucci

Video

Dick Straker

Cantante

Soprano

Corinne Winters

Rusalka

Tenore

Anton Rositskii

Il Principe

Jana Kurucová

La Principessa straniera

Basso

Evgeny Stavinsky

Ondin

Jiří Rajniš

La guardia forestale

Hongni Wu

Lo sguattero

Lucie Kaňková

Prima ninfa del bosco

Mezzosoprano

Sofia Janelidze

Terza ninfa del bosco

Katerina Hebelková

Seconda ninfa del bosco

Baritono

Alexander Marev

Il cacciatore

Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Liège

Orchestra

Royal Opera of Wallonia Orchestra

Others

Choeur de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Nino Surguladze

Ježibaba

Liegi

Belgio

Théâtre de la Place

Public

Luis Mariano Nomdedeu

Approvato

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

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