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	Rusalka at the Met
		Rusalka is a water-nymph who trades her immortality for the chance to win the love of a human prince.
		Rusalka is difficult role to cast because few of the vocally qualified lyric sopranos possess the physical grace and delicacy for the part.
		Rusalka’s movements once she leaves her water-world are limited to a sort of swimming through the air.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm2-9/sm2-9Rusalka.html (589 words)

	Winter '96 Program Guide, Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rusalka, an opera by Antonin Dvorak, is based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of "The Little Mermaid"- and you all thought it was a Disney story.
		Rusalka is challenged by a foreign princess' presence (Stephanie Sundine).
		Rusalka had to fail at being a human because she was, at heart and soul, a water nymph.
	kzsu.stanford.edu /~stefan/1996Winter/page23.html (468 words)

	www.hafabramusic.com
		In a forest the water spirit Rusalka tells the moon about the love she feels for a human and reveals her desire to be part of this human world of which she can only guess.
		Like the small siren of the Andersen tale, Rusalka is obliged to request the help of a witch and make a pact with her wherewith she will become dumb and it will therefore be impossible for her to tell of the immense love she feels for her prince.
		At the end of the opera, Rusalka is forced to kill the man she loves.
	www.hafabramusic.com /Mrusalkassongtothemoon.htm (147 words)

	Portland Opera - Support the Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We believe in the power of opera as an educational tool and believe educators and families should be able to use the arts to explore the imagination, to enrich their lives, and to investigate other academic areas.
		Opera is one of the world's supremely magical art forms, serving the basic human need to communicate feeling through music, singing and acting.
		Opera means "work" in Italian and is a play with most or all of the text sung to orchestral accompaniment, usually with elaborate costuming, sets, and choreography.
	www.portlandopera.com /support/education (1610 words)

	Untitled Document
		Rusalka is one of many daughters of the Gnome, but drawn by the beauty of the silver moon comes to the surface of the lake, where she sees a handsome prince.
		Rusalka is forswom, and so doomed to a life under the waters, luring men to their deaths.
		Rusalka is shot through with the aqueous references that inform so much Czech music, and conductor Oliver Gooch and his excellent small orchestra increasingly evoked the elusive darkening shimmer as the evening went on.
	www.ifordarts.co.uk /reviews/rusalka.htm (972 words)

	Wexford Festival Opera 2007 - Rusalka
		After The Devil and Kate in 1988 and Jakobín in 2001, Rusalka is the third of Dvořák's eleven operas to be staged at Wexford, and the largest-scale.
		Rusalka, a water nymph, has had the misfortune to fall in love with a human, a Prince who swims in her lake.
		Following Rusalka's transformation, everything appears to be going well as the Prince, mysteriously drawn to the lake, is so attracted to her that he takes her home to the castle; before long, he is making plans to marry her.
	www.wexfordopera.com /prog_det.php?id=3 (504 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- Rusalka - ****
		Rusalka (Renée Fleming) is a water nymph who is in love with the Prince (Sergei Larin).
		However, as in most fantasy operas, there is a catch: Rusalka will lose her ability to talk and the Prince must remain faithful to her.
		Fleming is opera’s reigning superstar soprano and this is a wonderful opportunity to hear her at the peak of her powers (then again, she keeps getting better every year, so her true peak may come years from now).
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/rusalka.htm (484 words)

	Metropolitan Opera: Dvorak's Rusalka
		For all the talk about the "magic of opera", really successful performances are so rare that dedicated operaphiles have grown accustomed to waiting long - and travelling far - in search of a sublime theatrical experience.
		Rusalka is a water-nymph who trades her immortality for the love of a human prince.
		The rest of Dvorak’s opera after the "Moon Song" is charming but a bit anticlimactic.
	www.scena.org /columns/anson/970601-PA-acis.html (626 words)

	AussieTheatre.com Reviews
		The water nymph Rusalka falls irrevocably in love with a mortal Prince (sung by tenor Julian Gavin), and does a deal with the forest witch Jezibaba (mezzo Milijana Nikolic) whereby she trades her power of speech for the gift of becoming a woman.
		The opera Rusalka demands an all-star cast and under the assured baton of Richard Hickox, the principals delivered uniformly excellent performances.
		Rusalka is not an opera for the faint hearted.
	www.aussietheatre.com /revrusalka.htm (567 words)

	Antonín DVORÁK - Rusalka [RJF]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Before Charles Mackerras’s promotion of Janáček’s operas, it would not be far from the truth to postulate that Czech opera was known outside that country only by Smetana’s Bartered Bride and Dvořák’s Rusalka.
		The latter was the ninth of Dvořák’s ten operas and the only one to establish itself outside his own country.
		She lacks the capacity to float the phrases in the ethereal manner that is Fleming’s hallmark.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/Aug03/Dvorak_Rusalka.htm (691 words)

	Dvorak's Rusalka has opera lovers over the moon - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie
		Following its Prague premiere in March 1901, 'Rusalka' has been part of the staple diet of Czech opera goers, but it has been slow to gain international recognition.
		The Moon, to which Rusalka sings her famous aria, is an acrobat suspending himself in a self-made hammock above the action.
		Rusalka, by the way, is a water sprite who, falling in love with a handsome prince, pleads for her release into the real world.
	www.independent.ie /national-news/dvoraks-rusalka-has-opera-lovers-over-the-moon-692240.html (384 words)

	Rusalka - The Story
		The waternymph Rusalka falls in love with a mortal prince and wants to become human to know the bliss of union with him.
		Die waternimf Rusalka is verlief op ‘n prins en wil in ‘n mens verander word sodat sy die vreugde van ‘n verhouding kan ervaar.
		Rusalka is egter gretig om ‘n mens te word en gryp die kans aan toe die prins haar ontmoet en sy hart op haar verloor.
	www.capetownopera.co.za /htm/Rusalka.htm (525 words)

	Rusalka - Arts Reviews - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		At the point when the white-coated, bulk-billing forest witch Jezibaba transforms Rusalka from fishy thing to material girl with oxygen, blood drip, bed pan and all the accoutrements of modern cosmetic surgery, you might wonder whether people who are really so embarrassed by old fairy stories should attempt them at all.
		Rosario La Spina, who sings the Prince, has had enormous exposure from Opera Australia recently and showed new maturity in leavening his powerful stentorian voice with more coloured moments (though in these, at the moment, the pitch is less reliable).
		Despite mixed wind intonation, the only regret with the Opera and Ballet Orchestra's performance under Richard Hickox was that the rich brass and icy and precise string sounds were slightly muffled by the watery depths of the pit.
	www.smh.com.au /news/arts-reviews/rusalka/2007/03/12/1173548078931.html (559 words)

	Review/Opera; A Visual 'Rusalka,' Staged Purely as a Fairy Tale - New York Times
		Rusalka's pitiable efforts to find her place in the prince's world were cruelly thwarted by a corps de ballet of grotesque courtiers and spied upon by a hunched, palsied footman.
		Rusalka, sung here with bland efficiency by Maria Spacagna, is a woman familiar in modern fiction, the innocent who trusts a man and learns to her sorrow that human love does not last.
		Goaded on by a mixture of love and duty to her fairy caste, Rusalka takes her revenge, which is literally to kiss the prince to death.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6D71130F936A15756C0A96E948260 (739 words)

	SparkNotes: Bel Canto: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
		Opera suffuses Bel Canto, the title of which comes from opera and means “beautiful song.” Roxanne Coss sings, Tetsuya Kato accompanies her, and a star is born in the person of Cesar, who has an angelic voice.
		Opera connects the characters in the novel, giving them a source of joy during their captivity.
		Rusalka, which is the centerpiece of Coss’s repertoire, is about a water goddess who wants to love a human prince.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/belcanto/themes.html (1151 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Maxwell Anderson was born in Scotland and graduated in History at Queens' College, Cambridge, before training at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio.
		Following his debut with Opera North in 1990, he was hailed by the press as the leading British heroic tenor of his generation.
		He has contributed to BBC Music Magazine and is a professor in the Vocal Faculty of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
	davidmaxwellanderson.net /index.html (170 words)

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		The opera becomes a myth of the pain of growing up; it opens in the nursery, and throughout the whole opera we're never sure whether we've left it, or whether its scenic transformations are merely part of Rusalka's dream.
		Jezibaba - a governess figure, perhaps, teasing Rusalka cruelly, turning her back on her suppliants - was also a kitchen witch who stirred her cauldron with her cat's tail and then swung it round in the air to dry.
		It's difficult to convey in words, but this scene showed the real savagery and cruelty behind the tale; the extent to which Rusalka is imprisoned by her muteness, and even by her love for the prince.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/andreak/rusalka.htm (724 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dvorak: Rusalka -- Paris Opera/Conlon: DVD: Renee Fleming,Eva Urbanova,Larissa Diadkova,Sergej ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Rusalka enters the bedchamber, finally as a human being in her own right, the mirroring is vertical, so that everything that takes place around the marital bed is mirrored on the other side of the room.
		Jezibaba tells her that her only way of extracting revenge is to kill human males by kissing them and when the Prince, who has seen the error of his ways, comes to reclaim her, she warns him (having gotten back her voice) that she cannot come with him because her kiss would be fatal.
		Rusalka is a signature role for Renée Fleming; her audio recording of the opera six years ago was a huge hit.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Dvorak-Rusalka-Paris-Opera-Conlon/dp/B0000DK4T6 (1532 words)

	Arts: Silent crush (Seattle Weekly)
		The opera's fairy-tale setting allowed for these, rewarding his skill at delicate detail rather than demanding an epic sweep that might have led him to overreach.
		Among the catches in Jezibaba's proviso-laden spell (so many you really have to wonder why Rusalka even bothers) is that the nymph will lose her voice in the presence of humans and thus will never be able to verbally communicate her love to the Prince.
		At its 1990 premiere, Seattle Opera's production was heralded as one of the scenic triumphs in their history, and it still looks stunning in the revival that opened Saturday.
	www.seattleweekly.com /2001-10-24/arts/silent-crush.php (686 words)

	Amazon.com: Dvorak: Rusalka: Music: Jiri Joran,Vaclav Bednar,Eduard Haken,Antonin Dvorak,Zdenek Chalabala,Eva ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Some western ears might not immediately warm up to the touch of steel in Milada Subrtova's voice, but her singing of Rusalka is perfectly controlled and inflected with a depth of understanding unmatched by her recorded rivals.
		And it is one of those operas that's totally entertaining to hear on CD even if you don't know or follow the libretto.
		Dvorak's penultimate opera, Rusalka, is also by far his most famous-a masterpiece full of wonderful melodies, outstanding orchestration and use of slavic rhythms.
	www.amazon.com /Dvorak-Rusalka-Jiri-Joran/dp/B00000DFP9 (1380 words)

	Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka - State Opera Prague
		The staging of Rusalka at the Prague State Opera has been taken up by the same team that was behind the extremely successful production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen (its opening took place on March 11, 2004): film director Zdeněk Troška, state director Milan Ferenčík, with the costumes by Josef Jelínek.
		The Prague State Opera in cooperation with the Slovart publishing house publishes a representative book tracking the history of this significant cultural institution since its opening in 1888 till the end of the 2002/2003 season.
		The publication called The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates is focusing solely on the opera featured at the scene, even though the theatre under various names also served to presentation of drama plays, operettas and ballet.
	www.opera.cz /en/repertoar/rusalka.html (432 words)

	Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka - State Opera Prague - www.statniopera.cz
		The staging of Rusalka at the Prague State Opera has been taken up by the same team that was behind the extremely successful production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen (its opening took place on March 11, 2004): film director Zdeněk Troška, state director Milan Ferenčík, with the costumes by Josef Jelínek.
		The Prague State Opera in cooperation with the Slovart publishing house publishes a representative book tracking the history of this significant cultural institution since its opening in 1888 till the end of the 2002/2003 season.
		The publication called The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates is focusing solely on the opera featured at the scene, even though the theatre under various names also served to presentation of drama plays, operettas and ballet.
	www.statniopera.cz /en/repertoar/rusalka.html (441 words)

	DVORAK Rusalka & Wanda
		RenÈe Fleming (Rusalka); Ben Heppner (The Prince); Franz Hawlata (The Water Goblin); Dolora Zajick (Jezibaba); Eva Urbanová (The Foreign Princess); Ivan Kusnjer (The Gamekeeper); Zdena Kloubová (The Turnspit); Dana Buresová, Hana Minutillo (Wood Nymphs); Ivan Kusnjer (A Huntsman); Kóhn Mixed Choir; Czech Philharmonic Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras, cond.
		Wanda, the fourth of Dvorák's nine operas, preceded by Alfred, The King and the Charcoal-Burner, and The Pig-Headed Fellow, had fallen into oblivion after its premiere in Prague in April 1876.
		The German Prince Roderick wishes to marry her but she is in love with the Polish knight Slavoj; her refusal to marry Roderick leads to a war between the Polish heathens and German Christians.
	www.classicalcdreview.com /rusalka.htm (548 words)

	Amazon.ca: Signatures Great Opera Scenes: Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky,Antonin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rusalka is Renee's audition piece - she uses it (together with the Countess'a arias) when she auditions and she is simply gorgeous here.
		Rusalka's aria to the moon is said to be tailored made for her voice,but somehow it's not my favorite.
		The excerpt from Rusalka anticipates the success of the complete set and it is obvious that Fleming has affinity for this music.
	www.amazon.ca /Signatures-Scenes-Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart/dp/B0000042HU (1825 words)

	Opera: Rusalka
		I have a special affinity for Italian opera, but I also have a lot of experience with French and German opera.
		I've been listening to opera since 1963 and have amassed a large collection of recorded opera during those years.
		The plot of Rusalka is basically the same as that of the Disney cartoon The Little Mermaid only without the happy ending.
	en.allexperts.com /q/Opera-1534/Rusalka.htm (267 words)

	Bouquets to all in a fairytale premiere \| Reviews \| The Australian
		DVORAK'S fairytale opera Rusalka is hardly an advertisement for romance.
		There is a mood of grim fatalism about the way love fails the water nymph Rusalka, the fickle Prince for whom she forsakes the spirit world to become human and her grieving father, the Water Sprite.
		Fuchs's direction brilliantly realises Rusalka's ultimate alienation, rejected by humans and spirits alike for daring to assert her free will.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,21367800-5001562,00.html (575 words)

	TravelApe.com Rusalka - Opera Australia in Sydney
		The title role demands a strong lyric soprano who can take on the ethereal, otherworldly quality of the water nymph who sacrifices her life for a moment of bliss.
		Dvorak's fairytale is best known for the sublime aria, "Song to the Moon", sung by Rusalka as she dreams of winning her beloved prince, but Dvorak's magical score, shot through with evocative fragments of Slavic folksong, is so much more than just one song.
		This highly original production, which choreographs the imagination through dramatic lighting and costumes, comes from England's Opera North, while the cast is drawn from some of Australia's finest voices, including Bruce Martin as Rusalka's father, Elizabeth Whitehouse as the Foreign Princess and Barry Ryan as the Gamekeeper.
	deals.travelape.com /sydney/rusalka---opera-australia/tours/119025-30178.html (280 words)

	Sydney Opera House > What's On > Box Office
		For the first time in Australia, Opera Australia presents a fully-staged new production of Antonin Dvoøák’s Rusalka, starring Cheryl Barker in the title role.
		Dvoøák’s fairytale is best known for the sublime aria, ‘Song to the Moon’, sung by Rusalka as she dreams of winning her beloved prince.
		Surtitles are a translation of the text of the opera projected on a screen above the stage.
	www.sydneyoperahouse.com /sections/whats_on/boxoffice/event_details.asp?EventID=1957&sm=1&ss=1 (275 words)

	Opera Australia :: Reviews, Schedules & Photos from The Opera Critic
		Legs bound together, having to sing while reclining under layers of silk atop a giant transparent plastic ice cube is among the least of British soprano Sally Matthews' concerns.
		John Milson promises that his new version of Rossini's The Barber of Seville for Opera Australia will be very different from the one it replaces.
		Never performed in Melbourne, Rusalka is part of Opera Australia's autumn season.
	www.theoperacritic.com /company.php?company=aus (456 words)

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