I am in the new generation of opera singers and lovers. I'm always looking for new artistic productions and interpretations on stage. This production of Rusalka could be most perfectly explained as sheerly beautiful! Some don't like its mildly complex staging, but I believe that its open for vast interpretation That's why its awesome.

These are a few of my thoughts about the meaning:

We see a small pool on stage about 2 or 3 inches in depth in the beginning, representing the lake that Rusalka and her sisters live. Remember, Rusalka is a water sprite, NOT a mermaid, as many people seem to think. Water sprites have the ability to walk on water, so this makes more since as they begin to splash around "on top" of the water.

Secondly, Rusalka's Father, who is dressed in a formal black business suit, is dressed this way (I believe) to represent a powerful force over the lake and its inhabitants. Its like "Daddy's coming home to his little girls after a day of work." The bed over the water represents the land, which is "out of reach" to the girls in their sprite form. Of course, the bed lowers as Rusalka becomes a woman.

As far as the "mirror scene" is concerned, this is left up to interpretation, but becomes more symbolic as Rusalka and the new Princess "trade places". Then we begin to understand why the mirror had to be there. Also, think of each side representing something: One is a world wanted and craved, the other a plain reality.

The dance sequence is something that needs to be thought about. Its essentially the entire story from beginning to end (more or less) in a dance. Notice the gestures that Rusalka makes as if she is choking, and see that same gesture mirrored in the female dancers. The stripping of their dresses is essentially the stripping of many things: life, happiness, and her ideal world.

I think that Robert Carsen did a remarkable job with this production. In addition, the singing of ALL of the characters is quite amazing. Renee's interpretation of "Song to the Moon" is sung with the warmest of legato lines and caresses the soul like velvet. Truly one of her signature roles! I love the three sisters in the beginning for their musicianship and energy. But Larissa Diadkova as Jezibaba is really something to hear. Her dark Mezzo voice is like Chocolate, with a hint of spice. Sergei Larin as the Prince gives a fascinating performance as well.

I highly recommend this production to any opera lover, if anything, just for something different. If you watch it with an open mind, I think that it has the ability to become a favorite in your collection. It did in mine!!!

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An unconventional take on a fairy tale

2008年5月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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Thanks to movies and TV there are thousands of people who know the soprano's aris from the first act. I wonder how many people who have bought a CD of the complete opera were able to keep at the entire score. Certainly it pays off with repeated listenings but Dvorak's own assessment of this gifts for the stage were probably correct: he was not a natural born opera composer.

I had a CD of the opera but truth to tell I was rarely inspired to take it down and listen to it. With the death of Larin I thought perhaps I have unfairly ignored the work, afteall even the Met has seen fit to mount it--probably because of Fleming. The Carsen production doesn't do the work any favors, but is not offputting to me, and I find it more acceptable than his Paris Opera Hoffman. For those who demand a setting more appropriate be warned: this is about as far from a sylvan milleau as you can get. Fortunately the singing is of a very high order. Larin's death robbed the opera world of an attractive spinto tenor. There is no doubt that his voice is hardly as melifluous as Ben Heppner's on the CD but his physique du role more than makes up for sheer beauty of tone. Fleming has always been a puzzlement to me. Optimum beauty of tone and face seem to be rarely coupled with optimum intelligence and a gift for stage characterization. Her most egregious performance is Capriccio in which she is merely content to be Renee Fleming. The updating of the production should not have deterred her from characterizing the Countess but either she doesn't care or can't find any reason to find an "inner" life in her character. As Rusalka (a role she has claimed as her favorite) she gives far and away her best dramatic performance; that it is vocally superior is a given. As to her Czech pronunciation I am unable to comment. The two Russians, Didakova and Larin, obviously are more at one with the idiom and Hawlata has such a gorgeous voice that one would have to be churlish to make a complaint. The one native, Eva Urbanova, has some of the faults that characterize Slavic singers--in the past. But her performance is not a deal breaker (the production probably is for most) and the role is not that large.

I believe that the only competition of a film with Czech singers. I have not seen it, but I have such an antipathy to lip-synching that it would never make my "short list".

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Félix M. Galván-Bird, MD

The Murder of Rusalka

2004年4月25日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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I can not express myself in English as well as I would like to
completely disagree with the above reviewers of this outrageous
production od Dvorak's beautiful opera. I respect their right to
have liked it but I must present the opinion of the majority of
traditional opera lovers who think that opera producers and direc
tors do not have the right to change the composers' intentions.
It is a pity that such wonderful singers consented to participate
in this monstruous deformation of an opera dealing with a world
of fantasy. This is a recording to be heard and not seen. To my eye it is hateful, indecent, ugly and boring and what one sees
has nothing to do with what the singers are saying. It is worse
than Salzburg's productions of Les Troyens, La Damnation de Faust
and Turandot. Francesca Zambello's production of Les Troyens for
the Met. Opera and War and Peace for Paris are bothe modern and
not traditional but they still respect the composers' creations.
Think well before spending your money in this DVD. If you want
to hear Renée Flemming in this beautiful opera buy the CD set.
Félix M. Galván-Bird, MD
Puerto Rico.

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Great Rusalka DVD to have

2004年3月8日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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The is the only Rusalka DVD available in original Czech. And it boasts Renee Fleming in the title role.
As usual, she is magnificent. And it is great to see her in addition to hearing her. In general, I find her singing more dramatic and less silkily beautiful than in her celebrated recording under Mackerras(Decca). This is probably what one would expect from a live performance. The other singers are all great, with Sergei Larin as the prince, Franz Hawlata as the watersprite, Larissa Diadkova as Jezibaba and Eva Urbanova as the foreign princess. The orchestra under James Conlon performs ably.
The set and direction are very modern and to these eyes somewhat controversial. But they are interesting, effective and totally valid.
The audience is very well behaved(or some applauses are edited out?), bursting into applause, justifiably, after the famous first act "Mesicku ..." aria, but before the agitated orchestral lead-out, which I felt disrupts the flow slightly.
The film direction is well done in the most part. The camera occasionally lets you see how a scene change is done, which leaves you wondering what the audience in Bastille was actually seeing at other scene changes where the camera "naturally" cuts from one scene to another.
There are very minor cuts to the score. The one I noticed were the solos by the 3 wood nymphs before their trio in the third act.
I don't have a 5.1 system yet, so I cannot comment on the surround sound, but at least the stereo sound is very good.
All in all, the DVD is well worth having.
Technical detail: 2 DVDs(1 DVD9 + 1 DVD5, I thought one DVD9 should have been able to hold 155 mins of video + trailers.)
NTSC, Region 0.
Subtitles in English, French, Itatian, Spanish.
Soundtracks in Czech, Linear Stereo + AC3 Dolby Digital + DTS.
Booklet contains track listings and a synopsis.
Trailers include plugs for other TDK opera DVDs

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Rusalka

2007年5月30日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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Musically entirely acceptable, but visually a mess. A gross example of directorial indulgence. The modern dress presentation is ludicrously at odds with the fairytale story.

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