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RUSALKA

Antonín Dvořák

Event details

18 June – 19 July 2022

The water spirit Rusalka sacrifices everything, including her voice, to follow the Prince she loves into the human world. Her silence comes between them in a powerful and poignant fable.

Dvořák’s best-loved opera is an intoxicating combination of folk tunes and soaring romantic melodies, shimmering with watery light and glinting darkness, including the sublime ‘Song to the Moon’.

Natalya Romaniw sings the title role in this new production, relocated from 2020, with Jack Furness directing and Douglas Boyd conducting.

Sung in Czech with English supertitles

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Rusalka

18 June – 19 July 2022

18 June – 19 July 2022

Cast & Creative Team

Cast

Rusalka

Natalya Romaniw

Prince

Gerard Schneider

Vodník

Musa Ngqungwana

Ježibaba

Christine Rice

Foreign Princess

Sky Ingram

Hajný

John Findon

Kuchtík

Grace Durham

First nymph

Marlena Devoe

Second nymph

Heather Lowe

Third nymph

Stephanie Wake-Edwards

Lovec

Mark Nathan

Aerialists

Sophie Earl
Lauren Jamieson
Victoria McManus
Sophie Northmore
Helen Parke
Lisa Whitmore

Creative Team

Conductor

Douglas Boyd

Director

Jack Furness

Designer

Tom Piper

Lighting Designer

Malcolm Rippeth

Choreographer / Movement Director

Fleur Darkin

Circus Choreographer

Lina Johansson
Philharmonia Orchestra
Garsington Opera Chorus

Gallery

Couples in Edwardian-inspired period dress dance on a raised platform. A woman in a white dress dances by herself on the floor next to the raised platform. A woman in a bright red dress looks down on the woman in white from a balcony. An image from Garsington Opera's 2022 production of 'Rusalka'.
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Figures in brightly dressed clothes with small horns play and spin on ropes above the stage.
Around the edge of the pool, figures in brightly dressed clothes with small horns dance and play, suspended by ropes and each other.
Three figures in brightly coloured dresses crouch at the edge of a pool, splashing water towards a man dressed in a gold and green robe. Over the pool two brightly dressed figure swing on ropes.
A figure in brightly dressed clothes with small horns slides across the stage on a rope, with a group of similarly dressed people holding the end. A man in a green and gold robe stares up at the flying figure.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A woman dressed in a green dress sings up to the moon above her.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A man dressed in a long green and gold robe strides through the water of the pool towards a woman dressed in a green dress.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A group of woman dressed in green emerge from underneath a suspended disk. A woman and man peer nervously over the top.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A man and woman dressed in practical working clothes with leather aprons stand in teh middle of a gloomy stage surrounded by hanging meats, deer, and roasting a whole animal over a fire.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A large group of people in lavish period costumes gather hostilely at the back of the stage staring at a woman in a white dress in front of them. Through a hole in the stage emerges a water spirit, Rusalka's father.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A woman in a red dress and tiara stands closely to a man in shirt sleeves holding a heart in one hand.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A woman in white is lowered on white ribbons through a hole in a giant suspended disk towards a pool of water.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A woman in a white dress, Natalia Romaniw playing Rusalka, stands at the front of an onstage pool. At the back cower a line of women dressed in green, her sisters. Around the edge of the pool, figures in brightly dressed clothes with small horns dance and play.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A woman in a white dress reaches for a man dressed in blue, both stood within a green pool onstage.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda
A woman dressed in dark clothes with a pointed headdress rest a hand on a giant skull as she passes. This is Ježibaba, the witch, played by Christine Rice in our 2022 Rusalka.
Rusalka, 2022 © Clive Barda