Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Rusalka

Over winter collective my cousin, mother, and I saw an opera called Rusalka. This opera was very strange. First off, it was in a movie theater. Our cousin wanted to see the live stream of Rusalka from the Metropolitan Opera Theater. The opera was in Czeck and was four hours long.

 Rusalka was basically a twist on The Little Mermaid but very strange. Rusalka is a water nymph and she sees a hunter. Rusalka drinks a potion that is given to her by the evil Jezibaba and it takes Rusalka's voice to make her human and she has to kiss the prince to get her voice back.

When Rusalka comes on land and the prince finds her he is immediately in love with her and brings her back to his castle. He tries to kiss Rusalka multiple times but she does not let him for some reason and when he finally get that she does not want to kiss him he goes back to the princess. Then Rusalka goes back to her home and calls on Jezibaba and wants to become water nymph but Jezibaba says Rusalka has to kill the prince to become a nymph again. Rusalka says that she can't so Jezibab puts a spell on Rusalka so that if she kisses the prince he will die. When the prince finds Rusalka who has run away from the castle he asks her to kiss him but Rusalka tells him that if he kisses her he will die but he tells her to kiss him so he can die in peace and then he dies because Rusalka kissed him.

8 comments:

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  2. This sounds like a very strange opera, and combined with a bunch of old people crying, this sounds like an interesting afternoon. :) Great post!

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  3. WONDERFUL!!!! Sounds very funny! It sounds confusing too though because it was all in a different language.

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  4. Were the movie seats at least comfy?

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  5. I don't mean to Prague you, but now I need to Czech out more about this. It seems like most big operas shown in America are in Italian, French, or English. This is an interesting view and in my opinion, well, I kind of want this to have been last year's AS Play. Sets would have been fun.

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  6. Sounds like a very interesting experience. Four hours is a long time. I hope there was intermission. Were there subtitles?

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  7. There's a saying that operas in English are comedies... Sounds like this opera didn't need to be translated to get that title. (Also, you seem to remember a lot about this opera... Why???)

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  8. There's a saying that operas in English are comedies... Sounds like this opera didn't need to be translated to get that title. (Also, you seem to remember a lot about this opera... Why???)

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