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Special Cinema Screening: Rusalka

2428 January 2024

Special Cinema Screening: Rusalka

2428 January 2024

Special Cinema Screening: Rusalka

2428 January 2024
Opera and music

Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee's poetic staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale comes to a cinema near you.

Asmik Grigorian in Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee’s Rusalka, The Royal Opera ©2023 Laura Stevens
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Special screenings from Wednesday 24 January 2024 at 6.45pm (GMT), with Encore screenings from Sunday 28 January 2024 at 2pm (GMT). Available to watch in the UK only. Book via your local cinema.

Running time
The performance lasts about 3 hours 50 minutes, including two intervals.
Guidance
BBFC rating: 12A
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Background

Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back.

Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) in the title role.

Full English cast sheet

Cast and Creatives

Creatives
Antonio Pappano in rehearsal for Live from Covent Garden, 13 June 2020 ©2020 ROH. Photograph by Lara Cappelli

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