Name: Rusalka
Start: 2009-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Renée Fleming

Rusalka

Christine Goerke

Princess

Mezzo-soprano

Stephanie Blythe

Jezibaba

Tenor

Aleksandrs Antonenko

Prince

Bass

Kristinn Sigmundsson

Vodnik

Kate Lindsey

The Turnspit

James Courtney

The Gamekeeper

Kathleen Kim

First Nymph

Brenda Patterson

Second Nymph

Edyta Kulczak

Third Nymph

Baritone

David Won

The Hunter

Conductor

Jiří Bělohlávek

Stage director

Otto Schenk

Costume designer

Silvia Strahammer

Set designer

Günther Schneider-Siemssen

The Metropolitan Opera

Czech

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Superstar Renée Fleming lavishes her warm, golden voice and appealing stage presence on the title role of the water nymph who falls in love with a human being—with tragic results for both of them. It is Jezibaba the witch (Stephanie Blythe) whose magic turns Rusalka from a sprite into a woman on the condition she not speak, and that her love, the Prince (Aleksandrs Antonenko), remain true to her. Christine Goerke is the jealous foreign Princess who ruins everything for the two lovers. With Kristinn Sigmundsson as the Gnome. Jirí Belohlávek conducts.

Production booklet

Further reading