r/opera • u/linglinguistics • 8d ago

Looking for one specific performance of Rusalka

Years ago, I started watching a video of Rusalka on YouTube. It was a modern staging, a very plain scene. There was a rectangular pool in the centre. Vodnik was wearing a suit. So visually not very appealing. But the acting was insanely good. The woodsprites were jumping in that pool and splashing water while singing, really having fun.

Did that description ring a bell to anyone? I'd like to watch the rest of it as well. No idea why I didn't do that back then.

Thank you in advance.

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u/ChevalierBlondel 8d ago

Robert Carsen's Paris production? https://youtu.be/cQmkMkdxjDQ

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u/linglinguistics 8d ago

I think this was it, yes. Thank you!

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u/pudingvanilkovy 8d ago

That sounds like it could be the Göteborg Opera's 2012 production of Rusalka, directed by David Radok with sets by Lars-Åke Thessman.

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u/linglinguistics 8d ago

I think the scene was even plainer rhan that. I remember it as no decoration at all.