Before last Sunday, I would never have recommended a “semi-staged” opera performance—that is, one which sacrifices some sets, costumes and stage movement to save costs while still allowing an audience ...

Sally Mathews as an increasingly tormented Rusalka, with mermaid sistersImages by Tristram Kenton Admirably upfront chorus nymphs (literally so as they shake their breasts in the refrains of their ...

Opera Orlando was on the road this weekend, bringing a beautiful production of Dvořák’s “Rusalka” to the grounds of the Maitland Art Center. Think “The Little Mermaid” moves to Florida and, like many ...

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Sometimes we pursue our dreams, and they come to fruition. Sometimes they don’t. “Rusalka,” presented by Portland Opera at the Keller Auditorium this month, gives us the latter viewpoint. It’s a ...

And so it was that Andrew Moore, Head of Music at the Edinburgh International Festival, had to poke his nose through the stage curtain and announce that Natalya Romaniw was unable to sing the title ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Dvořák's Rusalka (1901) is a tragic modern-day ...

Kristine Opolais stars in her first Met performance as the title character in Antonin Dvořák's Rusalka. The critically acclaimed new staging, directed by Mary Zimmerman and conducted by Mark Elder, ...

“Even divine nature needs its diminuendos and morendos, in order to come to life again and rise up, heading for a great crescendo, attaining her strength and stature once more in a mighty ff ...

Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the CMC Breckenridge campus, 107 Denison Placer Ave. When: 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8; the National Repertory Orchestra and the Lake Dillon Theater Company’s “Opera ...

Opera North is back at the Lowry in June with La Boheme, Mary Stuart and Rusalka. Here, associate director of Rusalka, Luise Napier gives us her five reasons why you should make a trip to the Lowry ...