Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The beauty of Dvorák’s opera, apart from its stirringly melodious music, is that it leaves itself wide open to ...

Antony McDonald’s five-star production of Rusalka brings one of the most poignant fairy tales in opera to life. Full of quirky characters, and with more than a nod to Hans Christian Andersen’s The ...

Houston Grand Opera scores one of its greatest triumphs of recent seasons with its revelatory production of Dvorak's enchanting "Rusalka." Magical transformations abound - and we're not refering just ...

Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about the dark side of humanity too.

Why has it taken so long for Dvorak's Rusalka to find its way into Scottish Opera's repertoire? The score '“ wonderfully rich in melody, texture and symbolism '“ surely couldn't have escaped the ear ...

Here’s some tragedy for you: Picture Sondra Radvanovsky, the celebrity soprano who’s earned her fame with her extraordinary voice, standing downstage centre of Four Seasons Centre for the Performing ...

ONE should, whenever possible, judge the calibre of a production by its faithful pilgrims. The more challenging (obscure) and difficult (potentially a mild yawn-fest) a work, the more lovably ...

In the version of the story adapted by Dvorak’s librettist Jaroslav Kvapil, the heroine pines for the human Prince (Rosario ...

THE FOUNDERS of the Edinburgh International Festival would likely be disappointed to learn that the 75th annual event features just a single fully-staged production of opera, but surely delighted that ...

In 1989, the story was Disneyfied and given a happy ending but between Andersen and Disney, the Czech composer Antonin Dvořak had brought us his own Little Mermaid or Rusalka, an opera based on a ...

Hamed Chabok has directed the 60-minute play, which has Ghorban Najafi, Parmis Hubakhsh, Mohammad Mehdi Mansouri Mehr, Reyhaneh Hatami, Yasaman Khansari, Mobina Keshavarz, Romina Hafezi, Mohammad ...