Sometimes we pursue our dreams, and they come to fruition. Sometimes they don’t. “Rusalka,” presented by Portland Opera at the Keller Auditorium this month, gives us the latter viewpoint. It’s a ...

The opera by Antonin Dvorak about a water nymph’s journey into the human world, first performed in 1901, is making its debut at La Scala in June. By David Belcher Poor Rusalka. The title character of ...

Antonín Dvorak’s opera Rusalka, first performed in Prague in 1901, has been given a makeover at the Santa Fe Opera this summer, and it goes right to the heart of personal identity, and wanting to ...

Rusalka is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil (1868–1950) based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. A ...

Rusalka may not be a household name where opera titles are concerned, but the main source for its plot, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, certainly is. Antonín Dvorák’s luxuriant setting ...

Houston Grand Opera presents Rusalka , a legend of mermaids, mere mortals, and sylvan glades. Few myths have so strong a hold on the imagination as that of the Little Mermaid, and no one ever gave her ...

Through centuries and across countries, various versions of folklore grew. “Rusalka,” which Wichita Grand Opera is presenting next weekend, is composer Antonin Dvorak’s take on the Czechoslovakian ...

“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 ...