Trivia / Rusalka

• All-Star Cast: As Rusalka, the Prince, Vodník, the Foreign Princess, and Jezibaba...
  • Audio Recordings:
    • 1984, conducted by Václav Neumann: Gabriela Benackova, Wieslaw Ochman, Richard Novák, Drahomíra Drobková, Vera Soukupová
    • 1998, conducted by Charles Mackerras: Renée Fleming, Ben Heppner, Franz Hawlata, Eva Urbanová, and Dolora Zajick.
    • 2002, conducted by James Conlon: Renée Fleming, Sergei Larin, Franz Hawlata, Eva Urbanová, Larissa Diadkova
    • 2009, conducted by Jirí Belohlávek: Ana María Martínez, Brandon Jovanovich, Mischa Schelomianski, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Larissa Diadkova
    • 2011, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst: Camilla Nylund, Piotr Beczala, Alan Held, Emily Magee, and Birgit Remmert.
  • Video Recordings:
    • 2010, conducted by Tomás Hanus at the Bayerische Staatsoper: Kristine Opolais, Klaus Florian Vogt, Günther Groisböck, Nadia Krasteva, and Janina Baechle.
    • 2014, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Met Opera: Renée Fleming, Piotr Beczala, John Relyea, Emily Magee, and Dolora Zajick.
• Referenced by...: In Bicentennial Man, when Andrew first repairs the record player, the disk he puts in plays "Mesicku na nebi hlubokóm" from Antonín Dvořák's opera Rusalka. The opera is concerned with the fairy-tale story of a water nymph who wants to become mortal for love.

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