15.06.–11.07.2025 / Opera

Rusalka

Antonín Dvořák
Sun 29.06.2025
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
18:30 - 21:30
Opera
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Wechselnde Wochentage-Abo 2
Dates
18:30 - 21:30
Premiere Opera
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Premieren-Abo Düsseldorf
19:30 - 22:30
Circle of Friends-Premiere Opera
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Neuproduktionen-Abo
19:30 - 22:30
Opera
Afterwards: Nachgefragt
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Samstags-Abo 1
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Wechselnde Wochentage-Abo 2
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Freitags-Abo
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19:30 - 22:30
For the last time this season Opera
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Content
Between a water creature and a human woman
Lyrical fairy tale in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
In Czech with German surtitles
approx. 2 ¾ hours, one interval
For all from 14 upwards
The mermaid Rusalka loves the prince - a human! She wants to risk everything, the loss of her family and her home, to become a human woman. Transformed by the witch Ježibaba, she must face the prince in silence, telling him of her love only through her looks and gestures. If the prince does not fall in love with her, he must die and she must live as an outcast from then on. Rusalka's appearance initially beguiles the prince, but the magical, voiceless creature remains a foreign body in the human world, and eventually her lover turns his back on her...

With great scenic dedication, Antonín Dvořák set the contrasting worlds of the ghostly, flowing underwater realm and the distant, stiff royal court to music in his "Lyrical Fairy Tale" in 1901. After "Der fliegende Holländer" (The Flying Dutchman), Russian director Vasily Barkhatov returns to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with "Rusalka".
With kind support of the friends of Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Musikalische Leitung
Inszenierung
Kostüme
Cast
Der Prinz
Die fremde Fürstin
Rusalka
Nicole Chevalier
Der Wassermann
Jezibaba
Heger
Der Küchenjunge
1. Nymphe
2. Nymphe
3. Nymphe
Ein Jäger

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