Go inside rehearsals for Opera Orlando's site-specific production of Dvořák's Rusalka at the Art and History Museums of Maitland. Check out the all-new video below.

First performed in Prague in 1901, Jaroslav Kvapil’s libretto is a fairytale heavily indebted to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Water nymph Rusalka falls in love with a prince and goes ...

The start is so meltingly full of promise: translucent heartbreak from the Royal Opera Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov, then a vision of Rusalka swimming with the Prince who’s been drawn to the forest ...

Named Director of the Year by Germany's magazine Opernwelt in 2013, Tatjana's career highlights include Parsifal (Vlaamse Opera, 2018), Die Ring Trilogie (Theater an der Wien, 2017), Alcina ...

Opera Orlando was on the road this weekend, bringing a beautiful production of Dvořák’s “Rusalka” to the grounds of the Maitland Art Center. Think “The Little Mermaid” moves to Florida ...

The only one of Dvorák’s 10 operas on the edge of the standard repertory, never done by the Dallas Opera, Rusalka is getting its Santa Fe premiere this summer. It’s based on Czech and German ...

The opera community has its own reasons to be grateful to everyone who participated in this “Rusalka.” In an era when opera companies everywhere are struggling for greater inclusiveness, they ...

Jaroslav Kvapil (1868-1950) was a Czech author and poet who had written the libretto for Rusalka before Dvořák became interested in it. The opera takes place in an unspecified fairy-tale setting.

Poor Rusalka! The water nymph heroine of Antonin Dvorak’s best-known opera never stands a chance against the witch Jezibaba — especially as played to the hilt by the powerhouse mezzo-soprano ...