Today’s Rusalka video overview covers filmed performances of Dvorák’s opera since 2010.
That little place just two hours from the city is on the list of things I shall never understand, like the plot of Parsifal.
“Has anyone ever seen a truly great production of this opera?”
I can’t think of another 20th century opera which has grown so fast in popularity so long after its composition than Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Rusalka and her sisters are huddled in the flooded basement.
Ioan Holender was General Manager of the Wiener Staatsoper for nineteen years, the longest anyone has held this post, and the august institution honored him with the gala to end all galas in the final days of his administration. With the goal of commemorating each of the 40 new productions premiered at the Staatsoper during…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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