“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 ...

Reading a director’s rationale before watching their take on a classic can blunt the freshness of one’s responses. But there are times when some preliminary swotting is essential, and so it is with ...

Houston Grand Opera scores one of its greatest triumphs of recent seasons with its revelatory production of Dvorak's enchanting "Rusalka." Magical transformations abound - and we're not refering just ...

A lush musical score, a stellar cast of singers, imaginative set design, fine choreography — what more could an opera company ask from a production? A full house, perhaps? Whole rows of empty seats ...

With Anne Sophie Duprels as the titular water nymph, backed distinctively by Peter Wedd and Willard White, this stylish production of Dvořák’s dark opera avoids the excesses of some interpretations A ...

Here’s some tragedy for you: Picture Sondra Radvanovsky, the celebrity soprano who’s earned her fame with her extraordinary voice, standing downstage centre of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing ...

ACT ONE of Dvorak's opera begins on the banks of a lake in the forest. Wood nymphs are teasing Vodnik, a water sprite. Rusalka, a water nymph, is one of Vodnik's daughters, and like her father and ...

Rusalka – Whispers of the Forest by Kamila Krol, is a comic book story exploring identity, belonging and control, set in the world of Slavic mythology. Enter the ominous Forest, and unravel its dark ...