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Dvorak: Rusalka / Hanus, Opolais, Vogt, Bayerische Staatsoper

Rusalka / Kvorak Release Date: 03/27/2012
Label: Kultur Video Catalog #: 4801
Composer:  Antonín Dvorák Performer:  Nadia Krasteva ,  Klaus Florian Vogt ,  Günther Groissböck ,  Kristine Opolais  ...  Conductor:  Tomás Hanus Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bavarian State Opera Orchestra Number of Discs: 2
Length: 3 Hours 9 Mins.

Also available on Blu-ray

This highly acclaimed production from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a powerful and fascinating re-interpretation of Dvorak’s fairy-tale opera Rusalka, was a revelation: the young, up-and-coming Latvian soprano, Kristine Opolais, whose performance was rightly hailed by the press as “one of the most vivid and striking accomplishments seen on an opera stage in a long time” (Vienna’s leading daily Der Standard).

With her supple and velvety soprano voice, her captivating physical beauty and her hauntingly moving stage presence, Kristine Opolais perfectly embodies the role of the water nymph who becomes a human being in order to find Read more love.

Format: NTSC, Widescreen, DTS 5.0
Region: 1 (US & Canada Only)
Running Time: 189 minutes
Color: Color
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean
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