Tcherniakov’s bold reading of Rusalka opens the season in Naples

Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka) and Gábor Bretz (Vodník)

Rusalka

Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka) and Anita Rachvelishvili (Ježibaba)

Ekaterina Gubanova (Foreign Princess) and Adam Smith (Prince)

Adam Smith (Prince) and Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka)

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 22 November 2024

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“a visually bold, but thematically uneven presentation”

Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 20 November 2024

Dvořák, Rusalka

Teatro di San Carlo

Dan Ettinger, Conductor

Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director, Set Designer

Elena Zaytseva, Costume Designer

Gleb Filshtinsky, Lighting Designer

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

Asmik Grigorian, Rusalka

Adam Smith, Prince

Gábor Bretz, Vodník, the water goblin

Anita Rachvelishvili, Ježibaba, the Witch

Ekaterina Gubanova, Foreign Princess

Peter Hoare, Gamekeeper

Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Kitchen Boy

Andrey Zhilikhovsky, The Hunter

Julietta Aleksanyan, First Wood Sprite

Iulia Maria Dan, Second Wood Sprite

Valentina Pluzhnikova, Third Wood Sprite

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.

Tcherniakov’s starkly modern reading of Rusalka opens the Teatro San Carlo season