Strange magic ripples under the water. And stranger magic in her heart.
Under the surface, Rusalka wants. She wants light. She wants love. She wants life outside of her home in the depths. The water nymph gives up everything to get it. But Rusalka can’t imagine just how much she’s giving up … or if the soul she seeks is worth the sacrifice.
Nicole Car has a once-in-a-generation voice, and is one of the most successful sopranos to emerge from Australia in decades. Don’t miss her return after several years on the world stage to make her role debut as Rusalka.
Dvořák’s rich, Romantic opera draws you into a dream-like world of light and shadow. The music shimmers with intricate harmonies and sweeping melodies, including the famous ‘Song to the Moon’. The lush orchestration paints a vivid atmosphere where magic and malice meet.
Director Sarah Giles follows up her critically acclaimed La Traviata with a new production of Dvořák’s melodic opera. She creates a mesmerising, dangerous world, where Rusalka longs to escape from a place that doesn’t feel like home. Ethereal costumes by Renée Mulder and an evocative set by Charles Davis glimmer with magic and mystery.
The cast is rounded out by Austrian-Australian tenor Gerard Schneider, Warwick Fyfe, Ashlyn Tymms, and Natalie Aroyan.
3hr 5min. Incl. 2 Intervals.
19th July, 2025
11th August, 2025
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★★★★½ "Breathtakingly beautiful and inventive." Limelight
Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch
Director: Sarah Giles
Set Designer: Charles Davis
Costume Designer: Renée Mulder
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Video Designer and Content Creator:David Bergman
Movement Director and Intimacy Coordinator: Dr Lyndall Grant
CAST
Rusalka: Nicole Car
The Prince: Gerard Schneider
The Water King: Warwick Fyfe
The Duchess: Natalie Aroyan
Ježibaba: Ashlyn Tymms
Performed with: Opera Australia Orchestra & Opera Australia Chorus
*Subject to change
Rusalka runs for 3hr 5min. Incl. 2 Intervals.
Rusalka is at Sydney's Joan Sutherland Theatre | Sydney Opera House, which is located at Bennelong Point, Sydney, 2000.
Rusalka tickets start at $84.
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