The Royal Opera
RUSALKA
Special screening: Wednesday 24 January 2024, 6.45pm GMT
[This production was filmed live in 2022]
Running time 225 minutes (including one interval)
Sung in Czech with English subtitles
Music Antonín Dvořák
Conductor Semyon Bychkov
Created by Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee
Set designer Chloe Lamford
Costume designer Annemarie Woods
Lighting designer Paule Constable
Choreographer Ann Yee
Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back. Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all–star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) in the title role.