Teatro di San Carlo

Rusalka

In Cinemas 17, 18 & 21 May 2025
Conductor
Dan Ettinger
Orchestra
Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo
Cast
Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka), Adam Smith (The prince), Gabor Bretz (Vodnik), Anita Rachvelishvili (Ježibaba), Ekaterina Gubanova (The foreign princess), Peter Hoare (The game wardner)
Composer
Antonín Dvořák
Director
Dmitri Tcherniakov
Designs
Elena Zaytseva
Duration
Approx. 3h30 incl. two intervals
Sung in Czech, with English subtitles
Captured live from Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, 20 Nov 2024
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Lyric fairy tale in three acts (1901)

New Production! Captured live from Naples’ splendid San Carlo Theatre – the world’s oldest continuously running public opera venue – where it opened the company’s theatrical season, acclaimed director Dmitri Tcherniakov stages a new production of Dvořák’s beautiful, supremely romantic opera about a water sprite Rusalka (here soprano-of-the-moment Asmik Grigorian) who longs to find love.

Maestro Dan Ettinger conducts a terrific cast that also includes exciting young British tenor Adam SmithEkaterina Gubanova, Anita Rachvelishvili and Gábor Bretz.

Teatro di San Carlo

Next to Plebiscito Square, one of the symbols of Naples, stands the shrine to Italian opera, Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice.

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