Rusalka is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil (1868–1950) based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. A ...

Rusalka is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben. A rusalka is a water sprite from Slavic mythology, ...

First performed in Prague in 1901, Jaroslav Kvapil’s libretto is a fairytale heavily indebted to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Water nymph Rusalka falls in love with a prince and goes ...

Kristine Opolais stars in her first Met performance as the title character in Antonin Dvořák's Rusalka. The critically acclaimed new staging, directed by Mary Zimmerman and conducted by Mark Elder, ...

The problem with opera is that even when the music is timeless, the storytelling can be so very dated. If it weren’t for the former, we wouldn’t have to put up with the latter. Antonín Dvořák’s ...

Toward the end of his fertile creative life, Antonin Dvorak refused to fixate on his status as the composer of beloved symphonies, chamber music and concertos. Instead, he longed to put his stamp on ...

A lush musical score, a stellar cast of singers, imaginative set design, fine choreography — what more could an opera company ask from a production? A full house, perhaps? Whole rows of empty seats ...

Howard/Metropolitan Opera Kristine Opolais and Eric Owens (left). Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Anyone arriving at a performance of the Met's new RUSALKA, in Mary Zimmerman's production, ...

Melissa Citro as Rusalka and Jill Grove as Jezibabain in the New Orleans Opera Association's production of 'Rusalka,' which is based on a Czech folktale that closely resembles Hans Christian ...