ROH Live 23/24: Rusalka

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Film Details

225 MIN

Rating
Live

Director
Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami

Cast
Rusalka Asmik Grigorian, The Prince David Butt, Philip Vodník Aleksei Isaev, The Duchess Emma Bell, Ježibaba Sarah Connolly, Kuchtík Hongni Wu, Hajny Ross Ramgobin, First Wood Spirit Vuvu Mpofu, Second Wood Spirit Gabrielė Kupšytė, Third Wood Spirit Anne Marie Stanley, Lovec Josef Jeongmeen Ahn, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Synopsis

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 allstar cast featuring Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) in the title role.

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