Rusalka
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák is still best known today as a symphonist. But this orchestral skill – an instinct for instrumental colour, for intricate, unexpected textures and late-Romantic music-drama – is at its most sophisticated in the composer’s most popular opera Rusalka, an adaptation of the familiar fairytale The Little Mermaid. Praised by critics as "magnificent", "breathtakingly theatrical" and full of "zestful imagination", Melly Still’s Rusalka is a Glyndebourne classic – a magical contemporary reimagining of a much-loved fairytale. Light and darkness, beauty and danger come together in this passionate tale of love against the odds.