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| Composer | Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Librettist | Jaroslav Kvapil |
| Year | 1900 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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Dvořák: Rusalka
Alan Gilbert; Netia Jones; Royal Swedish Opera; Case Scaglione; Lotta Hammarstrand
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Dvořák: Rusalka
Ondrej Olos; Zdeněk Troška; Prague State Opera; Anna Novotná-Pešková; Milan Ferenčík; Josef Jelínek; Prague State Opera Orchestra
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Dvořák: Rusalka
Tomáš Netopil; SKUTR (Martin Kukučka and Lukáš Trpišovský); Prague National Theatre Opera; David Švec; Martin Chocholoušek; Simona Rybáková; Karel Šimek
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No fairy tale: Kušej’s Rusalka works with devastating force in Munich
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Asmik Grigorian leads a searing performance in Martin Kušej’s 15-year-old, yet ever-fresh, outstanding production of Dvořák's opera.
Watery magic as Nicole Car makes a triumphant return to Sydney
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Nicole Car makes her role debut as Dvořák's Rusalka in a production by Sarah Giles that proves a winner.
Tcherniakov’s bold reading of Rusalka opens the season in Naples
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Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging of Rusalka in Naples has a starkly modern visual style which occasionally dilutes the story’s emotional impact.
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Dvořák: Rusalka
Marko Ivanović; David Radok; National Theatre Brno; Zuzana Jezková; Přemysl Janda; National Theatre Brno Janáček Opera Orchestra
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Bachtrack top ten: Antonín Dvořák
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Johannes Brahms was a big supporter of Antonín Dvořák and justly so, for the Czech master, who made it big in America, composed music full of bucolic good humour and Romantic richness.
Becoming human: Kateřina Kněžíková on Rusalka
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Soprano Kateřina Kněžíková talks about embodying Dvořák’s water nymph who tragically yearns to become human – and her personal journey with this most famous of Czech operatic roles.
“It’s not a Cinderella story”: Kristine Opolais
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Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais shot to international fame in 2010 in Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Bavarian State Opera. She talks to us having recently performed the role in Mary Zimmerman’s much anticipated new production at The Met.