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Rusalka is book one of Cherryh's three-book Russian Stories trilogy set in medieval Russia in forests along the Dnieper river near Kyiv in modern-day Ukraine. [1] [2] The novel draws on Slavic folklore and concerns the fate of a girl who has drowned and becomes a rusalka. It is also an exploration of magic and the development of a young wizard. [3]
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
Rusalka (pronounced ⓘ), Op. 114, is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák. His ninth opera (1900–1901), [1] it became his most successful, frequenting the standard repertoire worldwide. Jaroslav Kvapil wrote the libretto [2] on Karel Jaromír Erben's and Božena Němcová's fairy tales.
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.
2015 – Rusalka is the name of a number of beings in the video game Axiom Verge. In in-game dialogue, one rusalka translates this designation as a "water machine". 2016 – The Book of Speculation: A Novel, Erika Swyler's debut, features rusalka characters in traveling circuses.
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]
In 2013, Waters directed a new main stage community opera for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, co-devised with the composer Orlando Gough, librettist Stephen Plaice, and designer Es Devlin. In November 2013, she directed Chabrier’s L’Etoile for New Sussex Opera, and in May 2014 she directed a new production of Harrison Birtwistle ’s Down by ...
3/5 Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee’s production of Dvorak’s fairytale opera is well cast but weighed down by its politics