Sometimes we pursue our dreams, and they come to fruition. Sometimes they don’t. “Rusalka,” presented by Portland Opera at the Keller Auditorium this month, gives us the latter viewpoint. It’s a ...

The end of the Cleveland Orchestra's 2007-08 season at Severance Hall looks (and sounds) like the beginning of a beautiful relationship. With their concert version of Dvorak's fairy-tale opera ...

Rusalka, Dvorak’s 1901 opera, is a close Czech descendant of Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, from 1811, and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, from 1837 (both sources acknowledged ...

A legend of mermaids, mere mortals, and sylvan glades. Be transported to a mystical world of water sprites, witches, and wood nymphs. In exchange for love, Rusalka will relinquish not only her mermaid ...

Toward the end of his fertile creative life, Antonin Dvorak refused to fixate on his status as the composer of beloved symphonies, chamber music and concertos. Instead, he longed to put his stamp on ...

It helps to have a masterpiece as your starting point – and Dvorak’s Rusalka is certainly that – but when you’ve a director as painfully honest and unpretentious as Melly Still and a conductor, in ...