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An enchanting Rusalka at the Met Opera

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 23 January 2014
Dvořák, Rusalka
Metropolitan Opera
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Otto Schenk, Director
Renée Fleming, Rusalka
Emily Magee, Foreign Princess
Dolora Zajick, Ježibaba, the Witch
Piotr Beczała, Prince
John Relyea, Vodník, the water goblin
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