Antonin Dvorak:
Rusalka (premiere of a new production).
Tenor Pavel Cernoch (soon to be heard in Toronto as the Prince in Canadian Opera Company's fall 2019
Rusalka), as the only native Czech speaker in the cast, expressed the composer's own text with admirable clarity--his forthright vocalism carried authority, but still maintained its lyricism and he conveyed just the right degree of simmering jealousy and subsequent, heartfelt contrition.
Van Hagen sang 'Song to the Moon' from Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's opera, '
Rusalka.' Its lyrics were about a water-goblin's daughter who asked the moon to convey her love to a human, a prince.
Opera for the Young does its part to introduce kids to the art form via its English-language adaptation of "Dvor[sz]k's
Rusalka: A Mermaid's Tale." See this tragic tale of a watery woman's doomed love for a prince on Saturday at the Ravinia Festival Martin Theatre, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park.
Winter is monochromatic that shows her dramatic stroke of the deep, dark place feeling while painting with the accompaniment of the beautiful aria of
Rusalka's Song to the Moon and the music of Camille Saint-Saens: 'Carnival of Animals-The Dying Swan.'
Her other opera aria is considered her signature song, Anton'n Dvor[sz]k's "Song to the Moon" from his "
Rusalka." She sang it beautifully but also, as is her wont, squeezed out its emotions to the limit.
Costume course leader, Nadia Malik, says inspiration for the 'casts of characters' created by the graduating students comes from all manner of sources and includes everything from the Roald Dahl book James and the Giant Peach and the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels to the Antonin Dvorak's opera
Rusalka and the Edgar Allan Poe story Masque of the Red Death.
In October of 2010, she made a sensational debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in the title role of the new production of Dvorak's
Rusalka directed by Martin Kusej.
In addition to accompanying some of soprano Renee Fleming's most notable performances, including Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, Dvorak's
Rusalka, and Massenet's Manon, he also accompanied Marilyn Horne, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Thomas Allen.
"I've chosen some personal favourites such as
Rusalka's Song To The Moon, Handel's Piangero, Gaetano Donizetti's Norina's aria and Je Veux Vivre from Romeo and Juliette."