Rusalka Again

"Man is an abomination of nature: he has turned his back to Mother Earth" 
and now lives in an artificial world. He longs to get in touch with the spirits of the forest, the ocean and the blue sky again, but the return to nature is possible only by death.
ROH
Salzburg

Rusalka

1901

Rusalka is a water nimph who falls in love with a human and to meet him she leaves her comfortable watery underworld. But she fails in the cruel reality of human society and as there is no way to return to the safe waters she becomes an undead spirit and kills her lover.

2012

Rusalka is a prostitute who falls in love with a man and to marry him she escapes the brothel - but as she cannot communicate with the outside world she kills herself and his lover.

Dvorák Rusalka in Covent Garden

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