Title: Antonin Dvorak: "The Mermaid"
Original title: Antonin Dvořák: Rusalka
Release year: 2014
Genre: opera
Director: Otto Schenk
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Cast: Renée Fleming (Rusalka), Piotr Beczala (Prince), Dolora Zajick (Jezibaba), John Relyea (Water Goblin), Emily Magee (Foreign Princess), Orchestra, Ballet & Chorus of The Metropolitan Opera

Description:

Dvorak's enchanting fairy tale of the water nymph Rusalka has been signed for Renee Fleming for the past 25 years. The Gramophone Classical Music Guide writes: "Renee Fleming's tender and heartwarming account of Rusalka's Song to the Moon reflects on the fact that the role of the lovelorn water nymph, taken by her in the highly successful production at the MET in New York, has got one Of her favorites ". Here at last - in sumptuous HD - is that MET production by the late Gunther Schneider-Siemssen and directed by Otto Schenk. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts with "sensitive and urgency" (.Financial Times) and the supportive cast includes Piotr Beczala, "wonderful as the Prince, his tenor elegant and impassioned" [New York Times].

Issued: United States | Decca
Duration: ~ 165 min.