Magical debuts make the myth alive in Houston Grand Opera's Rusalka

By Sydney Boyd, 30 January 2016

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“Brian Jagde stole hearts and took no survivors as the rakish prince”

Reviewed at Wortham Theater Center: Brown Theater, Houston on 29 January 2016

Dvořák, Rusalka

Houston Grand Opera

Harry Bicket, Conductor

Melly Still, Director

Rae Smith, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Ana María Martínez, Rusalka

Brian Jagde, Prince

Richard Paul Fink, Vodník, the water goblin

Jill Grove, Ježibaba, the Witch

Maida Hundeling, Foreign Princess

Keith Jameson, Gamekeeper

Mané Galoyan, Kitchen Boy

Chris Bozeka, The Hunter

Donna Stirrup, Revival Director

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Sydney Boyd

Sydney Boyd is an arts writer, scholar, and violinist. She has been a music critic in Houston since 2012 and is the blog author of Girl at the Opera. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University, where she currently holds a post-doctoral Spatial Studies fellowship in the Humanities Research Center.