This year's premiere of the Ljubljana Opera and Ballet House is a production of the Glyndebourne Festival, a prestigious opera festival in Great Britain. Dvořák's Rusalka was on the program for the first time since this famous festival took place. At its premiere in June 2009, it received extremely positive responses. At Glyndebourne they will be doing it again...
This year's premiere of the Ljubljana Opera and Ballet House is a production of the Glyndebourne Festival, a prestigious opera festival in Great Britain. Dvořák's Rusalka was on the program for the first time since this famous festival took place. At its premiere in June 2009, it received extremely positive responses. It will be performed again at Glyndebourne in June and July 2011, confirming that the composer Antonín Dvořák has entered the ranks of the most renowned opera composers. Performed by the Opera of the Slovenian National Theater in Ljubljana, the play will come to life in a new, revised score prepared by the conductor Tomaš Hánus. The renowned Czech conductor recently conducted Rusalka directed by Martin Kušej at the Bavarian National Opera in Munich with great success. Antonín Dvořák's lyrical fairy tale will captivate us, even if we don't often go to opera houses, because it combines the magic of a fairy tale and the tragedy of reality to a degree that touches everyone. The title character of Rusalka is a water nymph who falls in love with a prince who hunts in the magical landscape around the lake, Rusalka's abode. Since the only way to fulfill love is to become human, the nymph decides to ask the sorceress for this, although she loses her gift of speech during the transformation, and even dies in the event of the prince's rejection. A silent, nameless beauty is found by the lake by a prince who takes her to the castle, but refuses to marry her, as he is engaged to[D1] a foreign princess. Rusalka becomes a demon of death that resides at the bottom of the lake. He only appears on the surface when he wants to lure people to their deaths. The romantic story ends with a deadly kiss. When the prince returns to the lake and asks Rusalka to kiss him, Rusalka appears from the lake and fulfills his last wish. Dvořák created distinctive music for Jaroslav Kvapil's opera fairy tale about the senseless love between a human prince and a fairy mermaid, which contains elements of magic, cruel reality, the mythical landscape, the vertigo of love...
[D1]with another?
