opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoAntonín Dvořák, Rusalka (1901)
libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
La Monnaie / De Munt, Brussels, 2012
- Conductor: Adam Fischer
- Director and Lighting Designer: Stefan Herheim
- Set Designer: Heike Scheele
- Rusalka: Myrtò Papatanasiu
- The Prince: Pavel Černoch
Nice-sounding but hard to watch, this production offers random sexual edginess that generally has nothing to do with the story underway. I was also less than impressed with a large pillar that rises up out of the stage and carries whoever's standing on it several meters into the air. I was afraid they would fall.