This is a brand new, unread program from the February 17, 2017 evening performance of Rusalka at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York City.

The cover features a sketch of the costume designer for the title character of Rusalka by Mara Blumenfeld and the Playbill features an article on this new production.

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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 following artists performed at this performance:


CONDUCTOR

Mark Elder

RUSALKA

Kristine Opolais

FOREIGN PRINCESS

Katarina Dalayman

JEŽIBABA

Jamie Barton


PRINCE

Brandon Jovanovich

WATER SPRITE

Eric Owens