The opera by Antonin Dvorak about a water nymph’s journey into the human world, first performed in 1901, is making its debut at La Scala in June. By David Belcher Poor Rusalka. The title character of ...

A water nymph sacrifices her immortality for the love of a prince, only to be rejected. But somehow, this fairy-tale inspired opera still has a... Life Yields to Love in Dvorak's 'Rusalka' Life Yields ...

Rusalka, Dvorak’s tragic opera, comes to FLC in HD Antonin Dvorák’s “Hymn to the Moon” sets a drippingly romantic tone for his operatic fairy tale, “Rusalka.” Early in Act I, the title character, a ...

When novelist J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings became a trio of blockbuster movies, the films added an element to the plot line that Tolkien basically ignored: romance. In the first ...

On the surface Dvorak’s penultimate opera ‘Rusalka’ is a Czech Fairy-tale. The water nymph of the title falls in love with a human prince and she desires to become human so their love can be ...

No shepherds, but there are plenty of nymphs in Dvorak's fairy-tale opera, Rusalka. The title character herself is a water nymph, and she's surrounded, courtesy of the chorus and the Jill Stew School ...

Eiji Oue conducts the Minnesota Orchestra in the Polonaise from the opera Rusalka by Anton Dvorak. The legend goes that Rusalka was a water nymph who fell in love with a prince. More on musical ...

This Jan. 24, 2017 image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, as the witch Jezibaba, standing, with soprano Kristine Opolais, as the water nymph Rusalka, in Dvorak's ...

Renee Fleming stars in Dvorak's three-act opera based on two fairy-tales which tells the story of a water-nymph called Rusalka (Fleming), who wishes she was human, after falling in love with a mortal.