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Rusalka rejects this, throwing the dagger into the lake. Rusalka becomes a will-o'-the-wisp, a spirit of death living in the depths of the lake, emerging only to lure humans to their deaths. The gamekeeper and the kitchen boy are worried about the deteriorating condition of the prince, and go to the lake in order to get rid of Rusalka.
Glyndebourne (/ ˈ ɡ l aɪ n d b ɔː n /) is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The house, located near Lewes in East Sussex , England, is thought to be about six hundred years old and listed at grade II.
3/5 Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee’s production of Dvorak’s fairytale opera is well cast but weighed down by its politics Rusalka review: The message fights with the music in this eco-conscious ...
The Glyndebourne Label is a UK-based record label founded in 2006 to release live recordings of Glyndebourne Festival Opera performances.. Releases on The Glyndebourne Label draw on archival recordings from 1960 to the present day and are released in pairs with one recording from the original opera house and one from the new opera house on the same site which opened in 1994. [1]
The term "Rusalka" derives from "rusalija" (Church Slavonic: рѹсалиѩ, Old East Slavic: русалиꙗ, Bulgarian: русалия, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: русаље) which entered Slavic languages, via Byzantine Greek "rousália" (Medieval Greek: ῥουσάλια), [4] from the Latin "Rosālia" as a name for Pentecost and the days adjacent to it. [5]
The videogame Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness, set in the Slavic countryside of a fictional east-European valley, features several Slavic fairies, including the Rusalka, Domovoy, and Leshy. Catherynne Valente's novel Deathless is set in a fantasy version of Stalinist Russia and features vila, rusalka, leshy, and other Slavic fairies.
The three books in the series are Rusalka (1989), Chernevog (1990), and Yvgenie (1991). Rusalka was nominated for a Locus Award in 1990. [2] The stories draw heavily from Slavic mythology and concerns the fate of a girl who has drowned and become a rusalka. [3] For example, a "Rusalka" is a type of life-draining Slavic fairy that
A witch offers her a potion and Rusalka takes a sip, trading her beautiful voice for the gift of legs. The Santa Fe Opera is staging the Antonín Dvorák classic beginning on Saturday, July 22.