Inspired by tales of water nymphs or vila - those elemental aquatic spirits so dear to the Romantics – Rusalka tells the moving story of a water spirit who, having sacrificed her voice out of love for ...

The Opera National de Paris mounted this production of Antonin Dvorak's lyric fairy tale opera +Rusalka in 2002, starring Renee Fleming as the title character, Larissa Diadkova as Jezibaba, Sergei ...

In 1989, the story was Disneyfied and given a happy ending but between Andersen and Disney, the Czech composer Antonin Dvořak had brought us his own Little Mermaid or Rusalka, an opera based on a ...

First performed in Prague in 1901, Jaroslav Kvapil’s libretto is a fairytale heavily indebted to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Water nymph Rusalka falls in love with a prince and goes ...

From Madama Butterfly’s Cio-Cio-San committing harakiri to Tosca leaping to her death from a parapet at Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo, opera’s heroines have rarely mastered the art of longevity. Prone to ...