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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  • Splendidly realised. A deserved triumph for an exceptional Asmik Grigorian. She is an artist with intense stage charisma; she exudes charm and voluptuousness, and makes theatre even with the most measured and apparently insignificant gesture or posture.
    Luigi Raso. L'APE MUSICALE
    Tcherniakov's starkly modern reading is striking and undeniably engaging. Grigorian delivered a luminous and emotionally profound portrayal of Rusalka, combining technical brilliance with heartfelt vulnerability.
    Lorenzo Fiorito, BACHTRACK
    An imaginative staging, excellently conducted by Dan Ettinger who dominates the work with intelligent expertise, a characteristic, pregnant sound.
    Salvatore Morra, GIORNALE DELLA MUSICA

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 has performed the role to great acclaim at the Royal Opera House and Teatro Real) who longs to find love.

Maestro Dan Ettinger conducts a terrific cast that also includes exciting young British tenor Adam Smith, Ekaterina 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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