Name: Rusalka
Start: 2023-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-06-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater Freiburg

Organization

Conductor

Ektoras Tartanis

Thomas Schmieger

Stage director

Kateryna Sokolova

Set designer

Nikolaus Webern

Costume designer

Constanza Meza-Lopehandia

Directing Assistant

Sebastian Krauß

Stage Manager

Cornelia Dettmers

Singer

Tenor

Jenish Ysmanov

Prince

Mezzo-soprano

Anja Jung

Jezibaba

Soprano

Caroline Melzer

Princess

Bass

Jin Seok Lee

Vodnik

Janina Staub

First Nymph

Lila Chrisp

Second Nymph

Alina Kirchgäßner

Third Nymph

Katharina Ruckgaber

Inga Schäfer

The Turnspit

Junbum Lee

The Gamekeeper

Ani Yorentz Sargsyan

Rusalka

Theater Freiburg

Others

Opernchor des Theater Freiburg

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg

Freiburg

Germany

Rusalka Dvořák,A

Public

Private

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

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Off-Stage Artist

On-Stage Artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Nachdem das Elementarwesen Rusalka seine Stimme gegen eine menschliche Seele eingetauscht hat, um dem Geliebten wesensnah zu sein, werden sich die Wassernixe und der Prinz fremder und fremder – und je weiter sie sich voneinander entfernen, desto existenzieller wird der Drang zu einer grundlegenden Trauerarbeit. Wie kann man den Verlust alles Lebenswerten und -inhalts aufarbeiten? Was muss losgelassen und was für immer festgehalten werden? Auch Seelen können sprechen, doch Rusalkas kann der Prinz nicht verstehen. Und so ist Rusalka stummer als stumm – bis auf die Arien, die aus der Tiefe einer anderen Welt in ihrem Innern tönen. Am Ende erhebt sich Rusalka irrlichternd über den See. Doch gerade das Irrlicht ist für den Prinzen zum Fixstern geworden – in einem lyrischen Märchen über tödliche Nähe und einen Abstand, der ebenso tötet.
Kateryna Sokolova, die mit ihrer filmischen Lesart von Leoš Janáčeks Oper DAS SCHLAUE FÜCHSLEIN einen überaus fantasievollen Einstand in Freiburg gegeben hat, setzt mit den spätromantischen Klangwelten Antonín Dvořáks ihre Erkundung des tschechischen Opernrepertoires fort.

Deutsch

After the elemental Rusalka exchanges his voice for a human soul in order to be close to his loved one, the mermaid and the prince become stranger and stranger - and the further they distance themselves from each other, the more existential the urge to do fundamental grieving. How can one come to terms with the loss of all life values ​​and content? What needs to be let go and what needs to be held on forever? Souls can also speak, but the prince cannot understand Rusalkas. And so Rusalka is more mute than mute - except for the arias that sound from the depths of another world within her. At the end, Rusalka rises above the lake like a will-o'-the-wisp. But the will-o'-the-wisp has become a fixed star for the prince - in a lyrical fairy tale about deadly closeness and a distance that also kills.
Kateryna Sokolova, who made an extremely imaginative debut in Freiburg with her cinematic interpretation of Leoš Janáček's opera THE CLOUD LITTLE VIXEN, continues her exploration of the Czech opera repertoire with Antonín Dvořák's late-Romantic soundscapes.

English

Rusalka by Dvořák, From (2023/2023), Directed by Kateryna Sokolova,, Conductor Ektoras Tartanis, Thomas Schmieger, Theater Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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