Connaught Cinema
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Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami
Asmik Grigorian, David Butt Philip
Rusalka
Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back.
Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian in the title role.
Cast and Creatives
Rusalka Asmik Grigorian
The Prince David Butt Philip
Vodník Aleksei Isaev
The Duchess Emma Bell
Music Antonín Dvořák
Conductor Semyon Bychkov
Created by Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee
Directors Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami
Sung in Czech with English subtitles
Approximate running time: about 3 hours 45 minutes, including one interval.
This is a cinema event. Recorded in 2022 and broadcast from the Royal Opera House
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