LONDON, UK - ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: RUSALKA

Conducted by Semyon Bychkov
CAST
RUSALKA Asmik Grigorian
PRINCE David Butt Philip
VODNÍK Aleksei Isaev replaces Matthew Rose
DUCHESS Emma Bell
JEŽIBABA Sarah Connolly
HAJNY Ross Ramgobin
KUCHTÍK Hongni Wu
FIRST WOOD SPIRIT Vuvu Mpofu
SECOND WOOD SPIRIT Gabrielė Kupšytė
THIRD WOOD SPIRIT Anne Marie Stanley
LOVEC Josef Jeongmeen Ahn

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Royal Opera Chorus

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.