 For the first time in Australia, Opera Australia's Music Director Richard Hickox conducts a fully-staged new production of Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka, starring Cheryl Barker in the title role. Rusalka is notoriously difficult to cast. The title role demands a strong lyric soprano who can take on the ethereal, otherworldly quality of the water nymph who sacrifices her life for a moment of bliss.
About the Story...
I want to leave here, get out of deep waters, I want to be human, live in the sunshine! - Rusalka, Act I
Rusalka tells the sad story of a water sprite who longs for human love. Dvorak's fairytale is best known for the sublime aria, "Song to the Moon", sung by Rusalka as she dreams of winning her beloved prince, but Dvorak's magical score, shot through with evocative fragments of Slavic folksong, is so much more than just one song.
This highly original production, which choreographs the imagination through dramatic lighting and costumes, comes from England's Opera North, while the cast is drawn from some of Australia's finest voices, including Bruce Martin as Rusalka's father, Elizabeth Whitehouse as the Foreign Princess and Barry Ryan as the Gamekeeper.
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