Today’s Rusalka video overview covers filmed performances of Dvorák’s opera since 2010.
“I will never sing the role again. It was frightful. We were a set of madwomen…There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived and reached the furthest boundaries in dramatic writing for the voice with Wagner. But Richard Strauss goes beyond him. His singing voices are lost. We have come to a full stop.”
Another season opens this weekend, the much-admired series of livestreams from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
For your viewing and discussing pleasure tomorrow afternoon, cher public, La Cieca recommends a live webcast of Verdi’s Macbeth from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
The next scheduled appearance of the Met’s Ring production has been canceled, as irrevocably as these things can ever be.
Rusalka and her sisters are huddled in the flooded basement.