Opera in 3 Acts, 1901 - Music Antonin Dvorak – Libretto Jaroslav Kvapil
Opéra de Limoges (2026), Opéra de Marseille (2025), Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur (2024), Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra Grand Avignon (2023)
« Insensitive watery power, you’ve dragged me back down into the deep…» - Rusalka, Act 3
CAST
Musical direction: Pavel Baleff (Limoges), Elena Schwarz (Nice), Lawrence Foster (Marseille), Domingo Hindoyan (Bordeaux), Benjamin Pionnier (Avignon)
Staging, Set & Costume design: Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil
Collaboration to scenic design: Christophe Pitoiset
Artistic collaboration: Lodie Kardouss
Lighting design: Rick Martin
Video: Pascal Boudet - Editing: Timothée Buisson
Graphic design: Julien Roques - Dramaturgy: Luc Bourrousse
Vanessa Goikoetxea, Cristina Pasaroiu, Ani Yorentz (Rusalka), David Kim, Sébastien Guèze, Tomislav Muzek (Prince), Camille Schnoor, Irina Stopina (Princesse étrangère), Ivo Stanchev, Mischa Schelomianski, Vazgen Gazaryan, Votjek Smilek (Vodnik), Marion Lebègue, Cornelia Oncioiu (Jezibaba), Charlotte Bonnet, Mathilde Lemaire, Clara Guillon, Marie Kalinine, Julie Goussot, Marie Karall, Valentine Lemercier, Hagar Sharvit (Trois nymphes), Coline Dutilleul, Clémence Poussin (Marmiton), Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Fabrice Alibert (Garde forestier).
PRODUCTION
Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur, Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Toulon, Région SUD Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur
ABOUT
From Andersen's frail Little Mermaid to Dvořák's romantic Rusalka, from Ester Williams’ Hollywood nautical fantasies to today's cruel world of synchronized swimming, it has never been easy, for a young girl, to build her femininity painlessly all around the swimming pools. Totally immersed in the world of synchronized swimming, our staging traces the difficult birth of femininity of a fragile young girl, seen in its most moving, but also most cruel, light.
