Dvořák: Rusalka - Teatro alla Scala

Plot

The theatre masterpiece by Antonin Dvořák, written in 1900, is a recurrent title on the season programmes of major European and American theatres. Strangely enough, it has never been performed at La Scala. The ambiguous fairy tale about a nymph who takes human form for the love of a prince who will betray her and only repent at death is fertile ground for the much awaited return of Emma Dante, whose career took wing precisely at La Scala with a felicitous production of Carmen. Making their debuts Piermarini’s auditorium, on the other hand, are the director of the Welsh National Opera Tomáš Hanus, a specialist in this repertoire, while Olga Bezsmertna will be in the title role.

Cast

Dmitry Korchak

The prince

Elena Guseva

The foreign princess

Olga Bezsmertna

Rusalka, water nymph

Jongmin Park

Vodnik, the water goblin

Okka von der Damerau

Jezibaba, the witch

Jiří Rajniš

The game ward

Tsvetelina Stoyanova

Kitchen boy

Hila Fahima

First wood nymph

Juliana Grigoryan

Second wood nymph

Valentina Pluzhnikova

Third wood nymph

Ilya Silchukou

The hunter