Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Dvorak's Rusalka

In a performance from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Czech maestro Jiri Belohlavek conducts soprano Renee Fleming in the title role of Dvorak's opera - one she has made her own in recent years, with global success. Rusalka tells the romantic story of a water nymph, who falls in love with a human. It has a poetic score, which evokes the mystery of the forest and explores the clash of the human and fairy worlds, most famously with Rusalka's passionate Song to the Moon. Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Siff. The two intervals include backstage interviews and the Metropolitan Opera Quiz. Rusalka ...... Renee Fleming (soprano) Foreign Princess ...... Christine Goerke (soprano) Jezibaba ...... Stephanie Blythe (mezzo-soprano) Prince ...... Aleksander Antonenko (tenor) Water Gnome ...... Kristinn Sigmundsson Gamekeeper ...... James Courtney (tenor) Turnspit ...... Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano) First Wood Nymph ...... Kathleen Kim (soprano) Second Wood Nymph ...... Brenda Patterson (soprano) Third Wood Nymph ...... Edita Kulczak (mezzo-soprano) Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).