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von betguynevada
14. Dez. 2020
The best Dvorak opera with the best Rusalka on DVD.
I have rated this as 4 star due to some volume problems with the singing in the first act, but it is a 5 star performance. One of the few places there is a Dvorak opera available today. And Rene Fleming is great! The aria "Song to the Moon" alone is worth the price of admission. The sets are very well done, especially the pond in which the water spirits swim--seems to be a series of blue cellophane streamers on clothes lines BUT works very well as actual visual water and should get a positive recognition of its own. The opera is updated to an amorphous WWI era, but that works fine as well. Good performances by all, Fleming as Rusalka, Delora Zajack as Jezebaba, and John Relyea as an appropriately imperious Water Gnome being tops. Piotr Beczala is a good Prince, vacillating and in some ways vacuous, but in the end being willing to die by the hand (or lips) of Rusalka, now an evil spirit who lures men to their deaths at the bottom of the lake. (Those deals with witches for potions to make you human don't come cheap.) Summary: this Dvorak fan is really sold on this dark take on the "Little Mermaid" trope.
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