Opera in 3 Acts, 1901 - Music Antonin Dvorak – Libretto Jaroslav Kvapil
Opéra de Marseille (February 11,13,16, 2025), Opéra Grand Avignon (October 13,15, 2023), Opéra National de Bordeaux (November 8,10,12, 2023), Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur (January 26,28,30, 2024).
« Insensitive watery power, you’ve dragged me back down into the deep…» - Rusalka, Act 3
CAST
Musical direction, Lawrence Foster (Marseille), Benjamin Pionnier (Avignon), Domingo Hindoyan (Bordeaux), Elena Schwarz (Nice)
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
Ani Yorentz, Vanessa Goikoetxea, Cristina Pasaroiu (Rusalka), Misha Didyk, Tomislav Muzek, David Kim, Sébastien Guèze (Le Prince), Irina Stopina, Camille Schnoor (La Princesse étrangère), Votjek Smilek, Vazgen Gazaryan, Mischa Schelomianski (Vodnik), Cornelia Oncioiu, Marion Lebègue (Jezibaba), Mathilde Lemaire, Clara Guillon (Première nymphe), Marie Kalinine, Julie Goussot (Deuxième nymphe), Marie Karall, Valentine Lemercier, Hagar Sharvit (Troisième nymphe), Clémence Poussin, Coline Dutilleul (Le marmiton), Fabrice Alibert, Philippe-Nicolas Martin (Le garde forestier, la voix d’un chasseur).
PRODUCTION
Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra de 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. And, in Dvořák's opera as in the locker rooms of our modern swimming pools, one can truly speak of an injunction to femininity. The pressure exerted on teenage girls, in the 19th century and still today, remains constant and archetypal. 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.
