The Royal Opera – RUSALKA

Special screening: Wednesday 24 January 2024, 6.45pm GMT

[This production was filmed live in 2022]

Running time 225 minutes (including one interval)

Sung in Czech with English subtitles

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Synopsis

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 (Jenůfa) in the title role.