The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka (2017) blends Music elements. Top cast includes Kristine Opolais, Brandon Jovanovich, and Jamie Barton. Relationships and emotional turning points shape the core of the story.

Actor: Kristine Opolais

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).