Name: Rusalka
Start: 2025-06-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus Düsseldorf

Admin

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Soprano

Nicole Chevalier

Rusalka

Orchestra

Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Harry Ogg

Stage director

Vasily Barkhatov

Set designer

Christian Schmidt

Costume designer

Kirsten Dephoff

Lighting designer

Alexander Sivaev

Chorus master

Patrick Francis Chestnut

Singer

Tenor

Giorgi Sturua

Prince

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Harvey

Jezibaba

Luke Stoker

The Water Goblin

Kimberley Boettger-Soller

The Kitchen Boy

Sarah Ferede

Princess

Mara Guseynova

First Nymph

Elisabeth Freyhoff

Second Nymph

Katya Semenisty

Third Nymph

Baritone

Henry Ross

The Hunter

Jorge Espino

Heger

Jake Muffett

Czech

Dusseldorf

Germany

Opernhaus Düsseldorf

Public

Keerthi Raj

German

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

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Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

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Contralto

Countertenor

Bass

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Die Nixe Rusalka liebt den Prinzen – einen Menschen! Sie will alles auf sich nehmen, den Verlust ihrer Familie und ihrer Heimat, um eine Menschenfrau zu werden. Von der Hexe Ježibaba verwandelt, muss sie dem Prinzen aber stumm gegenübertreten, ihm nur durch ihre Blicke und Gesten ihre Liebe mitteilen. Verliebt sich der Prinz nicht in sie, muss er sterben und sie fortan als Ausgestoßene leben. Rusalkas Erscheinen betört den Prinzen zunächst, doch das magische, stimmlose Wesen bleibt ein Fremdkörper in der Menschenwelt, und schließlich wendet sich der Geliebte von ihr ab...

Mit großer szenischer Hingabe vertonte Antonín Dvořák 1901 in seinem „Lyrischen Märchen“ die gegensätzlichen Welten des geisterhaft fließenden Unterwasserreiches und des distanziert steifen Königshofes. Nach „Der fliegende Holländer“ kehrt der russische Regisseur Vasily Barkhatov mit „Rusalka“ an die Deutsche Oper am Rhein zurück.

Deutsch

The mermaid Rusalka loves the prince - a human! She wants to risk everything, the loss of her family and her home, to become a human woman. Transformed by the witch Ježibaba, she must face the prince in silence, telling him of her love only through her looks and gestures. If the prince does not fall in love with her, he must die and she must live as an outcast from then on. Rusalka's appearance initially beguiles the prince, but the magical, voiceless creature remains a foreign body in the human world, and eventually her lover turns his back on her...

With great scenic dedication, Antonín Dvořák set the contrasting worlds of the ghostly, flowing underwater realm and the distant, stiff royal court to music in his "Lyrical Fairy Tale" in 1901. After "Der fliegende Holländer" (The Flying Dutchman), Russian director Vasily Barkhatov returns to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with "Rusalka".

English

Rusalka by Dvořák, From (2025/2025), Directed by Vasily Barkhatov,, Conductor Harry Ogg, Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

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