
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Banevich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Georges Bizet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexei Verstovsky

Anton Rubinstein
Guiseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich
Umberto Giordano

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Tatiana Kamysheva

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.