Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jacques Offenbach
Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
Hector Berlioz
Dmitry Shostakovich
Dmitry Shostakovich
Georges Bizet
Tatiana Kamysheva
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Giacomo Puccini
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Georges Bizet
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Modest Mussorgsky
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Andrei Rubtsov
Giacomo Puccini
Richard Strauss
Gaetano Donizetti
Modest Mussorgsky
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Alexei Verstovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Rubinstein
Richard Strauss
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Richard Wagner
Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
Mieczysław Weinberg
Gioachino Rossini
Sergei Banevich
Francesco Cilea
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
Umberto Giordano
Dimitry Rostovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sergei Prokofiev
Giuseppe Verdi
Gioacchino Rossini
Rusalka by Dvořák, one of the brightest examples of Czech musical modernism, arrived on stage at the dawn of the 20st century. The premiere was held on the 31st of March 1901. It was born at the time of a phenomenon of “new drama”: theatre stages were occupied by the naturalistic plays by Henrik Ibsen and the symbolic writings by Maurice Maeterlinck. The final “kiss of death” of Rusalka makes us remember the female characters of Oscar Wilde: a few years later Salome by Richard Strauss would appear on an opera stage.
Premiered on March 6, 2019.
Presented with two intervals.
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Act I
Wood nymphs merrily dance and sing along by the lake. Rusalka sits forlornly on the shore. When Rusalka’s father, the Water Sprite, asks what the matter is, she replies that she has fallen in love with a human, who comes often to the lake. Now she wants to become human herself and live on land to be with him. The Water Sprite warns her that humans are evil and full of sin. Rusalka insists, claiming they are full of love and have an eternal soul. The Water Sprite says she will have to get help from the witch Ježibaba. Rusalka calls on the moon to tell the Prince of her love. Ježibaba agrees to turn Rusalka into a human – but warns her that if she doesn’t find love she will be damned and the man she loves will die. Also, by becoming mortal, she will lose her power of speech. Convinced that her feelings for the Prince can overcome all spells, Rusalka agrees. The transformation is complete.
The Prince appears with a hunting party and sees the beautiful maiden by the lake. Even though she won’t speak to him, he is captivated by her beauty and leads her away to his castle.