Rusalka
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
Teatro alla Scala New Production
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus
| Conductor | Tomáš Hanus |
| Staging | Emma Dante |
| Sets | Carmine Maringola |
| Costumes | Vanessa Sannino |
| Lights | Christian Zucaro |
| Choreography | Sandro Maria Campagna |
CAST |
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| The prince | Dmitry Korchak |
| The foreign princess | Elena Guseva |
| Rusalka | Olga Bezsmertna |
| Vodnik, the water goblin | Jongmin Park |
| Jezibaba | Okka von der Damerau |
| Kitchen boy | Anna-Doris Capitelli |
The theatre masterpiece by Antonin Dvořák, written in 1900, is a recurrent title on the season programmes of major European and American theatres. Strangely enough, it has never been performed at La Scala. The ambiguous fairy tale about a nymph who takes human form for the love of a prince who will betray her and only repent at death is fertile ground for the much awaited return of Emma Dante, whose career took wing precisely at La Scala with a felicitous production of Carmen. Making their debuts Piermarini’s auditorium, on the other hand, are the director of the Welsh National Opera Tomáš Hanus, a specialist in this repertoire, while Olga Bezsmertna will be in the title role.
