Rusalka
Venues:
Národní divadlo, Praha 1 | Schema of hall (area) | Show location on map
| 31.10.2013 | 19:00 | Národní divadlo | Tickets |
The opera is staged in Czech original version and English surtitles are used in the performance.
Duration of performance: 3 hours and 30 minutes
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Details of event
Musical preparation: Jakub Hrůša
Conductor: Jakub Hrůša / Zbyněk Müller
Director: Jiří Heřman
Stage design: Jaroslav Bönisch
Costumes: Alexandra Grusková
Lights: Daniel Tesař
Chorus master: Pavel Vaněk
Choreography: Jan Kodet
Dramaturgy: Beno Blachut
Dvořák’s ardent melodiousness, both tender and dramatically extreme, his masterly deployment of musical motifs and full-blooded orchestral instrumentation, together with Jaroslav Kvapil’s libretto, reminiscent of Erben’s simple and at the same time extremely cogent ballads, make Rusalka a work of sheer rapturous beauty, touching a chord with audiences irrespective of age. It is customary to consider Rusalka a fairy-tale. The fantasticality of its action and the characters – dryads, the Water Goblin, fairies, the Witch – are indisputably fairy-tale-like. However, despite its “fairy-tale nature” this paramount Dvořák work bears in itself a profound message encrypted in the fairy-tale scenes, a message about the basic arrangement of powers, elements, energies and passions in the natural, i.e. also human, world. The story of Rusalka is built upon a number of pagan mythological symbols, which we – it would seem – understand because they speak to our unconscious and to our hearts.
Appearing:
Rusalka: Dana Burešová / Maria Kobielska
Prince: Valentin Prolat / Aleš Briscein / Peter Berger
Water Goblin: Martin Gurbal' / Štefan Kocán / Miloslav Podskalský
Witch, Foreign Princess: Dagmar Pecková / Jolana Fogašová / Denisa Hamarová
First Wood Sprite: Yukiko Šrejmová Kinjo / Kateřina Kněžíková
Second Wood Sprite: Lucie Hájková / Alžběta Poláčková
Third Wood Sprite: Michaela Kapustová / Stanislava Jirků
Turnspit: Lívia Obručník Vénosová / Kateřina Jalovcová
Gamekeeper: Ivan Kusnjer / Adam Plachetka / František Zahradníček
Hunter: Ivan Kusnjer / Adam Plachetka / František Zahradníček
Orchestra, Choir and Ballet of the National Theatre Opera.
PHOTO: PETRA HAJSKÁ
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