Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
Rusalka, opéra en 3 actes

Asmik Grigorian, soprano (Rusalka)
David Butt Philip, ténor (Le Prince)
Emma Bell, soprano (La Duchesse)
Aleksei Isaiev, baryton (Vodnik)
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano (Jezibaba)
Hongni Wu, mezzo-soprano (Huchtik)
Ross Ramgobin, baryton (Hajny)
Royal Opera Chorus
William Spaulding, direction
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Semyon Bychkov, direction
Ann Lee, mise en scène
Natalie Abrahami, mise en scène

Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back. Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvorák’s lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian (Jenufa) in the title role.