Rusalka

by Antonín Dvořák
Lyrical fairy tale in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
No other version of the popular story of a mermaid who falls in love with a human and has to give up her form and being in order to do so is nearly as ghostly and beautiful as Antonín Dvořák's opera Rusalka . And nobody knows their way around there as well as the dazzling drag performers with whom director Bastian Kraft doubles Dvořák's forest and water creatures - experts in transformation and beautiful appearances in the spotlight. Through lip-synching, they make the fairy tale of mermaid and prince their own. Alongside a top-class ensemble of singers, in Rusalka they are in search of a life in which who we love and who we are no longer determines whose existence takes place in the light and whose in the dark.