The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka (2017)

Plot Summary

Kristine Opolais “gives a vocally lustrous and achingly vulnerable performance” (New York Times) in the role that helped launch her international career, the mythical Rusalka, who sings the haunting “Song to the Moon.” Director Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvořák’s fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption, giving the work “an inspired staging” (Huffington Post). Brandon Jovanovich, Jamie Barton, Katarina Dalayman, and Eric Owens complete “a matchless cast” (New York Times), and Sir Mark Elder conducts “a magnificent rendering of the composer’s lush score (Huffington Post).

Full Cast & Characters

Kristine Opolais

Rusalka

Brandon Jovanovich

Prince

Jamie Barton

Ježibaba

Eric Owens

Vodník (A Gnome)

Katarina Dalayman

Foreign Princess

Matthew Polenzani

Self - Host

Hyesang Park

First Wood Sprite

Megan Marino

Second Wood Sprite

Cassandra Zoé Velasco

Third Wood Sprite

Anthony Clark Evans

Hunter

Alan Opie

Gamekeeper

Daniela Mack

Kitchen Boy

Director & Crew

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