Kristine Opolais “gives a vocally lustrous and achingly vulnerable performance” (New York Times) in the role that helped launch her international career, the mythical Rusalka, who sings the haunting “Song to the Moon.” Director Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvořák’s fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption, giving the work “an inspired staging” (Huffington Post). Brandon Jovanovich, Jamie Barton, Katarina Dalayman, and Eric Owens complete “a matchless cast” (New York Times), and Sir Mark Elder conducts “a magnificent rendering of the composer’s lush score (Huffington Post).

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

Mozart'ın ilk opera başyapıtı, Music Director Emeritus James Levine tarafından yönetilen klasik Jean-Pierre Ponnelle üretiminde Met'e döndü. Süper topluluk, döküntü yemini yırtılan kral olarak Matthew Polenzani'yi; Asil oğlu Idamante'nin pantolon rolünde mezzo-soprano Alice Coote; Ilia olarak soprano Nadine Sierra; Ve soprano Elza van den Heever, Idamante'yi çılgınlık sınırına sevk eden uçucu Elettra olarak görüyorlar.