The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka (2017)
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).
Directors: Gary Halvorson, Mary Zimmerman.
https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=811357019023
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Kristine Opolais as Rusalka |
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Brandon Jovanovich as Prince |
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Jamie Barton as Ježibaba |
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Eric Owens as Vodník (A Gnome) |
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Katarina Dalayman as Foreign Princess |
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Matthew Polenzani as Self - Host |
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Hyesang Park as First Wood Sprite |
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Megan Marino as Second Wood Sprite |
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Cassandra Zoé Velasco as Third Wood Sprite |
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Anthony Clark Evans as Hunter |
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Alan Opie as Gamekeeper |
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Daniela Mack as Kitchen Boy |
| Writing | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué | Original Story |
| Production | Mia Bongiovanni | Supervising Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tom Watson | Makeup & Hair |
| Production | Peter Gelb | Executive Producer |
| Production | Louisa Briccetti | Producer |
| Production | Victoria Warivonchik | Producer |
| Art | Daniel Ostling | Set Designer |
| Sound | David Frost | Music Producer |
| Crew | Austin McCormick | Choreographer |
| Directing | Gary Halvorson | Director |
| Lighting | T.J. Gerckens | Lighting Design |
| Production | Elena Park | Supervising Producer |
| Crew | Paul Cremo | Dramaturgy |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dana Burkart | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Crew | Ron Washburn | Technical Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | William Malloy | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Art | Mary Zimmerman | Production Design |
| Directing | Mary Zimmerman | Director |
| Writing | Jaroslav Kvapil | Writer |
| Sound | Mark Elder | Conductor |
| Sound | Antonín Dvořák | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mara Blumenfeld | Costume Design |