ROH Live: Rusalka

Conductor: Semyon Bychkov | Directors: Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami
Cast: Asmik Grigorian, David Butt Philip, Emma Bell, Sarah Connolly, Matthew Rose, Ross Ramgobin, Hongni Wu, Vuvu Mpofu, Gabrielė Kupšytė, Anne Marie Stanley, Josef Jeongmeen Ahn

This poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale reveals our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it.

Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back.

Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) in the title role.