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Rusalka
Lyric fairy tale in three acts (1901)
Music by Antonín Dvořák
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
In Czech with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
In a forest lake lives the water woman Rusalka with her sisters and her father, the Aquarius. At night, a handsome prince sometimes bathes in the lake, Rusalka has fallen in love with him and now longs to be able to embrace the youth not only in the form of a wave of water. She wants to be a human woman and loved by the prince. The Aquarius warns them against this wish, but she goes to the witch Ježibaba, which transforms her into a kind of human being, only she has to give her voice for it. So she becomes mortal, and if her lover breaks her allegiance, she is damned, and he must die. When the prince returns to sea, he sees the supernaturally beautiful Rusalka, and longing seizes him as well. He takes her to his castle and wants to marry her. But after only a week, he is anxious and disappointed: Rusalka does not respond to his passionate physical urge. He does not understand that and since she is dumb she can not explain herself. To everyone else in the castle, the dumb woman is scary right from the start. At the planned wedding celebrations comes a foreign princess, who should marry the prince from time immemorial and is now deeply offended that she runs out of empty. But when she realizes that Rusalka does not know human desire and does not satisfy the wishes of the prince, she sees her chance and offensively offers herself to the prince, who immediately addresses it. Rusalka has to watch as the lover slips away from her before the wedding. Aquarius, having come to the wedding, takes the terrified Rusalka back to the lake. There, the witch Ježibaba tells the sad Rusalka that she can only become a real water woman again and live in the lake with the others if she kills the prince for his betrayal. Rusalka refuses. In the meantime the prince has left the princess again, he has obviously become insane and wants to bring Rusalka back. He calls her on the shores of the lake and demands that she finally hugs and kisses him. Sadly, she denies it, because it would mean his death. When the prince insists, she kisses him - he dies, Rusalka sinks in the lake.
Subject to change.
Music by Antonín Dvořák
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
In Czech with German surtitles
New production of the Theater an der Wien
In a forest lake lives the water woman Rusalka with her sisters and her father, the Aquarius. At night, a handsome prince sometimes bathes in the lake, Rusalka has fallen in love with him and now longs to be able to embrace the youth not only in the form of a wave of water. She wants to be a human woman and loved by the prince. The Aquarius warns them against this wish, but she goes to the witch Ježibaba, which transforms her into a kind of human being, only she has to give her voice for it. So she becomes mortal, and if her lover breaks her allegiance, she is damned, and he must die. When the prince returns to sea, he sees the supernaturally beautiful Rusalka, and longing seizes him as well. He takes her to his castle and wants to marry her. But after only a week, he is anxious and disappointed: Rusalka does not respond to his passionate physical urge. He does not understand that and since she is dumb she can not explain herself. To everyone else in the castle, the dumb woman is scary right from the start. At the planned wedding celebrations comes a foreign princess, who should marry the prince from time immemorial and is now deeply offended that she runs out of empty. But when she realizes that Rusalka does not know human desire and does not satisfy the wishes of the prince, she sees her chance and offensively offers herself to the prince, who immediately addresses it. Rusalka has to watch as the lover slips away from her before the wedding. Aquarius, having come to the wedding, takes the terrified Rusalka back to the lake. There, the witch Ježibaba tells the sad Rusalka that she can only become a real water woman again and live in the lake with the others if she kills the prince for his betrayal. Rusalka refuses. In the meantime the prince has left the princess again, he has obviously become insane and wants to bring Rusalka back. He calls her on the shores of the lake and demands that she finally hugs and kisses him. Sadly, she denies it, because it would mean his death. When the prince insists, she kisses him - he dies, Rusalka sinks in the lake.
Subject to change.
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